Lyonel Feininger: at the Edge of the World August 27, 2011

Born and raised in New York, Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) moved at the age of sixteen to Germany, where he became one of the leading practitioners of German Expressionism and the Bauhaus. In the late 1930s, when the Nazi campaign against modern art forced him to flee back to New York after an absence of fifty years, his marriage of abstraction and recognizable imagery made him a beloved artist in the United States. This retrospective is the first in Feininger's native country in more than forty-five years, and the first ever to include the full breadth of his art.