Gallery Ghost by Anna Nilsen May 22, 2008
Lyonel Feininger (The Bicycle Race). Paul Gauguin {Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven). (Suite101.com)
Souren Melikian: A healthy tempo set in Modernist sales May 8, 2008
The beautiful imaginary urban view, "Umpferstedt," in the faceted style devised by Lyonel Feininger in the wake of French Cubism, that followed seemed more reasonable at $1. 94 million, well within Sotheby's estimated price bracket. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
L.A. museum given Picasso, Matisse works Dec 14, 2007
The gift from Janice and Henri Lazarof includes 20 works by Picasso; two versions of Constantin Brancusi's signature bronze, "Bird in Space;" seven figurative sculptures and a painting by Alberto Giacometti; two dozen works by Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger and Impressionist pieces by Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro. "It's a major deal to get this work in one fell swoop, at a time when the art market has made it nearly impossible for museums to purchase work of this quality,"... (MSNBC -- News)
LACMA gets huge gift Dec 12, 2007
" About 80 works from the collection will go on view Jan. 13, a month before the museum unveils the first phase of an ambitious expansion and renovation program that includes a new contemporary art building financed by Los Angeles collector-philanthropist Eli Broad. The Lazarof donation will debut in three galleries on the plaza level of the Ahmanson Building, in a new 22,000-square-foot showcase for modern art. Although Henri Lazarof is a veteran composer and his wife, a daughter of the late... (Los Angeles Times)
Shaped into greatness Dec 3, 2007
Gropius then published a manifesto - illustrated by Lyonel Feininger - promising to create "the new building of the future to embrace architecture, sculpture and painting in one unity." Few of the old staff survived the first two years of his regime. The urbane Gropius replaced them with his own appointees, including Klee and Schlemmer. (International Herald Tribune)
The dangerous game of pushing up prices higher and higher Nov 17, 2007
12 million and a street scene painted by Lyonel Feininger in 1909 also fetched $10. 12 million. (International Herald Tribune)
AUCTIONS: A Schiele sells for $11.35 million at Sotheby's Nov 9, 2007
A little later, a 1909 street scene by Lyonel Feininger came up. It has an alacrity that sets Feininger apart from mainstream Expressionism usually given to abysmal gloom, but the estimate, $12 million to $16 million, was far too generous. (International Herald Tribune)
Matisse Sets Record as Christie's Auction Totals $395 Million Nov 7, 2007
Last night's sale included a group of German and Austrian paintings, reflecting the heightened demand for names including Lyonel Feininger, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Many of them sold, though a 3-foot-square 1912 painting by August Macke, ``Paar im Wald (Couple Walking in the Woods),'' was too pricey at over $15 million, particularly for an artist who had never surpassed $4. (Bloomberg)
Art Dealer Daniella Luxembourg Urges Buyers to Be Wary of `Uber-Marketing' Aug 8, 2007
Her London sale of Berlin art, ``Lonely Prophets, German Art From 1910 to the 1930s,'' includes works by Kirchner, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz and Christian Schad, being sold by Italian, German and U.S. collectors and valued at ``tens of millions of pounds,'' she said. Price lists will be available in late September. (Bloomberg -- UK)
6 world records set at Sotheby's May 10, 2007
28 million paid for "Jesuiten III" (Jesuits III) painted in 1915 by Lyonel Feininger, the U.S.-born painter of German stock who left America to become a leading painter of the German avant-garde school, took all professionals by surprise. It more than doubled the highest estimate quoted by Sotheby's experts in the catalogue and far exceeds the previous world record price for a painting by the artist that was set when "Angler mit blauem Fisch" (Angler with a blue fish) brought 4. (International Herald Tribune)
Lyonel Feininger Exhibition Mar 28, 2007
Nearly 300 Art Works Pictured in Color with Accompanying Essays. The artist's drawings, prints, and watercolors represent his distinctive originality with characteristics of major styles of modern art. (Suite101.com)
Backlash over return of looted art Dec 10, 2006
The heirs of the owners of paintings by August Macke, Lyonel Feininger and Franz Marc have all demanded that the works be returned. Stuttgart's Staatsgalerie museum was asked to hand over Marc's 1911 oil painting The Little Blue Horses, the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen has a claim for Kirchner's Judgment of Paris, and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover has been asked to return another Marc. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Gropius' Bauhaus in Dessau Sheds Two-Tone Look, Glows in Birthday Colors Dec 5, 2006
Teachers at the school included the artists Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger and Gropius's successor, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The building in Dessau, an otherwise unremarkable East German town about 100 kilometers southwest of Berlin, was named a Unesco world heritage site in 1996. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Krazy Kat to Peanuts late, great comic strips Nov 25, 2006
"Masters" in Newark reaches back to the artisans of the earliest newspaper strips in the early 20th century, particularly Winsor McCay, the genius behind Little Nemo, Lyonel Feininger (Kin-der-Kids) and George Herriman (Krazy Kat). The exhibition's conclusion at the Jewish Museum focuses more on much-heralded moderns such as R. Crumb (Zap Comix), Gary Panter (Jimbo) and Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth). (Toronto Star -- Arts)
Dilemma over sale of Nazi stolen art Nov 13, 2006
There are fears that a similar fate awaits at least 50 other key works by Kirchner and the German expressionists August Macke, Lyonel Feininger and Franz Marc. However, on Saturday Mr Lauder hit back at the critics, insisting he had bought only two such works of art - the Kirchner and Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer - and both would be on public display. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Art: A record total for London auction Jun 21, 2006
"Angler with Blue Fish," painted by Lyonel Feininger in 1912 during his stay in Germany in a geometricizing style influenced by Cubism, set an auction record for the artist at 4. 15 million. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Like father, like son Apr 28, 2006
Lyonel Feininger was a painter, caricaturist and printmaker ... To mark the 50th anniversary of Lyonel Feininger s death and the 100th anniversary of Andreas Feininger s birth, the Contessa Gallery at Legacy Village is mounting an exhibit that places works by the talented father and son side by side, allowing the viewer to discover parallels in their artistic vision ... The exhibit includes numerous works by Lyonel Feininger and over 40 famous photographs by Andreas Feininger, including 20 rare,... (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Funnies get their due in huge art exhibition Mar 24, 2006
It progresses from there to Lyonel Feininger, a founding member of the Bauhaus who worked as a cartoonist for less than a year before switching to a celebrated career as an expressionist painter. Also included are George Herriman, whose more modernist style gave the world the popular Krazy Kat, and Chester Gould, who brought to life the square-jawed, no-nonsense detective Dick Tracy. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
