SOURCES AND IMAGE CREDITS


QUOTES

Lyonel Feininger: „[…] it is because I have such fantasies that I am a caricaturist […]“, quoted from: Lyonel Feininger to Julia Berg, 12.11.1905, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Lyonel Feininger: „The further I came […]“, quoted from: Lyonel Feininger to Julia Feininger, 15.05.1913, quoted from: Wolfgang Holler, Gloria Köpnick (ed.), Bauhaus und Natur – Lyonel Feininger mit dem Rad unterwegs, Weimar, 2021, p. 9.

Lyonel Feininger: „Without music […]“, quoted from: Lyonel Feininger, “Feininger Reminiscences”, 21.08.1944, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Lyonel Feininger: „There is solely one art […]“, quoted from: Lyonel Feininger and Adolf Knoblauch, „Zwiesprache“, published in: Der Sturm, 2. Jg., September 1917, quoted from Lothar Schreyer (Hg.), Lyonel Feininger. Dokumente und Visionen, München 1957, p. 30.

Lyonel Feininger: „The earliest impressions I have of machinery […]“, quoted from: Lyonel Feininger, Marsden Hartley, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1944, p. 7.

Lyonel Feininger: „In disposition, I am realistic […]“, quoted from: Lyonel Feininger to Julia Berg, 12.11.1905, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Lyonel Feininger: „People with yearnings understand me[.]“, quoted from: Lyonel Feininger and Adolf Knoblauch, „Zwiesprache“, published in: Der Sturm, 2. Jg., September 1917, quoted from Lothar Schreyer (Hg.), Lyonel Feininger. Dokumente und Visionen, München 1957, p. 23


ARTWORKS

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© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023 for the artworks of Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius und Marg Moll.

Parantheses around a title indicate that this title was either not assigned by the artist or is a translation from the German.

Lyonel Feininger, (Self-Portrait), 1915, oil on canvas, 100,3 × 80 cm, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase made possible by Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund (2014.756), photo: © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Lyonel Feininger, (Uncle Sam), 1903, published in Ulk XVIII, no. 41, 1903, p.8, newspaper print 30.8 × 22.5 cm, Moeller Fine Art, New York, photo: Moeller Fine Art, New York.

Lyonel Feininger, (Uprising), 1910, oil on canvas, 104.4 × 95.4 cm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of Julia Feininger, 1964 (257.1964), Digital image © 2023 The Museum of Modern Art, New York/ Scala, Florence.

Lyonel Feininger, Gelmeroda VIII, 1921, oil on canvas, 100.3 × 80.3 cm, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Digital image Whitney Museum of American Art / Licensed by Scala.

Lyonel Feininger, (Lady in Mauve), 1922, oil on canvas, 100.5 × 80.5 cm, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, photo: © Carmen Thyssen Collection, Madrid and © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemsiza, Madrid.

Lyonel Feininger, (Broken Glass), 1927, oil on canvas, 72.5 × 65 cm, private collection, Courtesy Moeller, Fine Art, New York, photo: Moeller Fine Art Projects | The Lyonel Feininger Project, New York – Berlin.

Lyonel Feininger, Bliss Building (New York) [BRLF.1006.133], 1940s–1950s, 35mm color slides, 3 × 3.5 cm each, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA Gift of T. Lux Feininger, photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA.

Lyonel Feininger, Leo (Self-Portrait), 1912, pencil on paper, 20.2 × 16.4 cm, Moeller Fine Art, New York, photo: Moeller Fine Art, New York.

Lyonel Feininger, Rue du Faubourg (Village Street), 1909, oil on canvas, 80 × 100 cm, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, photo: bpk / Nationalgalerie, SMB / Jürgen Liepe.

Lyonel Feininger, (The White Man), 1907, oil on canvas, 68.3 × 52.3 cm, Colección Carmen Thyssen, permanent loan Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, photo: © Carmen Thyssen Collection, Madrid and © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

Lyonel Feininger, Les Regrets de M. Hearst (The Regrets of Mr. Hearst), 1906, published in: Le Témoin I, no. 6 (November 24, 1906), Newspaper print, 37.6 × 31.5 cm, Moeller Fine Art, New York, photo: Moeller Fine Art, New York.

Lyonel Feininger, (Carnival), 1908, oil on canvas, 68.5 × 54 cm, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, photo: bpk / Nationalgalerie, SMB / Jörg P. Anders.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Emma’ō, King of the Underworld, 1854, ethnological collection of the Museum Natur und Mensch, Munich, IV/2525, photo: Axel Killian, CC BY 4.0.

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, poster advertising “La Goulue” at the Moulin Rouge, 1891, photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932 (32.88.12), New York.

Lyonel Feininger, St. Louis, 1904, published in: Lustige Blätter XIX, 1904, Nr. 26, Cover, colour lithograph on paper, 30,8 × 22,6 cm, private collection, photo: Moeller Fine Art Projects | The Lyonel Feininger Project, New York – Berlin.

Lyonel Feininger, Gaberndorf (I), 1921, oil on canvas, 80 × 100 cm, Osthaus Museum Hagen, photo: Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf.

Lyonel Feininger, Zirchow VII, 1918, oil on canvas, 80.7 × 100.6 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, gift of Julia Feininger (1966.3.1), photo: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Lyonel Feininger, Cathedral (large block), title page of Manifest und Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar, 1919, printing on sand-colored paper, sheet size: 31.9 x 19.6 cm, collection Freese, photo: Norbert Miguletz.

Lyonel Feininger, Bauhaus Building in Dessau, Night View from the Northeast, 22 march 1929, facsimile of: gelatin silver print on Baryta paper, 17,8 × 23,8 cm, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, photo: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin.

Lyonel Feininger, (Lighted Windows II), 1932, oil on canvas, 43.2 × 72.2 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel, bequest of Dr. h.c. Richard Doetsch-Benzinger, Basel, 1960 (G 1960.19), photo: Martin P. Bühler.

Lyonel Feininger, Gelmeroda II, 1913, oil on canvas, 100 × 80 cm, Neue Galerie, New York (This work is part of the collection of Estée Lauder and was made available through the generosity of Estée Lauder), photo: bpk / Neue Galerie New York / Art Resource, NY, private collection.

Lyonel Feininger, Gelmeroda III, 1913, oil on canvas, 100.5 × 80 cm, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, purchased 1985, photo: National Galleries of Scotland.

Lyonel Feininger, Gelmeroda, 1920, woodcut on yellow paper, sheet size: 33.1 × 24.5 cm, collection Freese, photo: Norbert Miguletz.

Lyonel Feininger, Gelmeroda XIII, 1936, oil on canvas, 100.6 × 80.6 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, George A. Hearn Fund, 1942 (42.158), photo: bpk / The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Lyonel Feininger, Gelmeroda, 1955, lithograph on paper, sheet size: 28 × 21 cm, collection Freese, Photo: Norbert Miguletz.

Lyonel Feininger, Leviathan (Steamer Odin I), 1917, oil on canvas, 81.3 × 100.3 cm, private collection, Switzerland, photo: private collection Switzerland.

Lyonel Feininger, (Skerry Cruisers), 1930, oil on canvas, 40 × 75 cm, private collection, photo: Moeller Fine Art Projects | The Lyonel Feininger Project, New York – Berlin.

Lyonel Feininger, (The Cyclists), 1912, oil on canvas, 80.3 × 100.3 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon Collection (1985.64.17), photo: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Lyonel Feininger, City at the Edge of the World, 1925–1955, 68 carved and painted wooden figures and buildings, max. height 14 cm, width variable, Fels Collection, photo: Roman März.

Lyonel Feininger, Colored Trucks [BRLF.1008.202], 1940s–1950s, 35mm color slides, 3 × 3.5 cm each, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, gift of T. Lux Feininger, photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Lyonel Feininger, (Three Locomotives and Two Tenders), 1913–1914, carved and painted wood, 11,4 × 3,2 × 6,7 cm / 19,1 × 3,8 × 5,7 cm / 19,1 × 3,8 × 4,5 cm, private collection, Courtesy Moeller Fine Art, New York, photo: Moeller Fine Art Projects | The Lyonel Feininger Project, New York – Berlin.

Lyonel Feininger, Railroad Viaduct, 1919, woodcut on yellow Kozo paper, image: 33.3 × 42.5 cm, sheet size: 38.1 × 49.5 cm, Moeller Fine Art, New York, photo: Moeller Fine Art, New York.

Lyonel Feininger, (Fisherfleet in Swell), 1912, oil on canvas, 40.5 × 48.5 cm, Sprengel Museum Hannover, gift of the Sprengel Collection (1969), photo: bpk | Sprengel Museum Hannover.

Lyonel Feininger, Bathers (on the Beach I), 1912, oil on canvas, 50.5 × 65.7 cm, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, Association Fund (BR54.7), photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Lyonel Feininger, (Dune at Eventide), 1936, oil on canvas, 48 × 77.7 cm, private collection, Courtesy Moeller Fine Art, New York, photo: Moeller Fine Art Projects | The Lyonel Feininger Project, New York – Berlin.

Caspar David Friedrich, The Monk by the Sea, 1808–1810, photo: Wikimedia.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838, photo: Wikimedia.

Lyonel Feininger, (Avenue of Trees), 1915, oil on canvas, 80.5 × 100.5 cm, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, bequest of William S. Lieberman (2007.17), photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Lyonel Feininger, (Black Ice and Fog on Burgkühnauer Allee in Dessau), 1928, gelatin silver print, 17.8 × 23.7 cm, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, gift of T. Lux Feininger, 1987, bMS Ger 146.4 (301), photo: Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Lyonel Feininger, Hand [BRLF.1009.94], 1940s–1950s, 35mm color slides, 3 × 3.5 cm each, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, Gift of T. Lux Feininger, photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Lyonel Feininger, Road in the Pine Forest, 1918, woodcut on paper, sheet size: 22.5 × 17.2 cm, collection Freese, photo: Norbert Miguletz.

Lyonel Feininger, Manhattan I, 1940, oil on canvas, 100.5 × 80.9 cm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of Julia Feininger, 1964 (259.1964), Digital image © 2023 The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence.

Lyonel Feininger, New York, 24th Street [BRLF.1006.192], 1940s–1950s, 35mm color slides, 3 × 3.5 cm each, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, gift of T. Lux Feininger, photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Lyonel Feininger, The Vanishing Hour, 1951–52, oil on canvas, 47.5 × 81 cm, private collection, Switzerland, photo: Philipp Hitz.

Lyonel Feininger, Sympathetic Gallery Visitors, ca. 1952, watercolor, India ink and gold paint on paper, 7.7 × 14 cm, Moeller Fine Art, New York, photo: Moeller Fine Art, New York.


AUDIO

“Fugue I” (Excerpt), Composition: Lyonel Feininger, Viviane Goergen: Piano, Instrument: Steinway & Sons ©, Recording: 1994 Recording Studio Rödermark, Recording Producer: Christoph Schulte, Released on the CD “Feininger Impulse, Bildkunst und Musik” (P) and © 1999 by kreuzberg records.


DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL

The Bauhaus masters on the roof of the Bauhaus building in Dessau (from left to right): Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholoy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl und Oskar Schlemmer, 1926, photo by Walter Gropius with a self-timer, photo: bpk.

Walter Gropius, (Conceptual diagram of the structure of teaching at the Bauhaus), 1923, published in: Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar 1919–1923, Weimar 1923, special print, p. 10, photo: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin.

Lyonel Feininger, 1926, photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, gift of T. Lux Feininger.

Model Boats in Central Park, photo: Sergi Reboredo / Alamy Stock Photo.

Julia and Lyonel Feininger in the studio of the semi-detached Master‘s House, Dessau, on the easel the painting „Der Pulverturm I”, 1927, photo: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin.

Exhibition „Entartete Kunst“, photo: bpk / Deutsches Historisches Museum / Raumbildverlag Otto Schönstein.