Lyonel Feininger
USA (1871—1956)US-born Feininger moved to Germany at the age of 16, initially to study music. He soon redirected his interest toward the visual arts. He started his career as a caricaturist and illustrator. Moving to painting, he took part in the Berliner Sezession and joined artistic groups of German Expressionism, such as Die Brücke, the November Group and Der Blaue Reiter. In 1924, with Kandinsky, Klee and Jawlensky, he founded Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four). In 1919, he was appointed by Gropius to teach graphic art and printmaking; here he created Kathedrale, the woodcut cover design for the Bauhaus manifesto. In 1937, he moved to New York and later to North Carolina, to Black Mountain College, where he reunited with Gropius.
