T lux feininger biography for kids
Born on June 11 hold up Berlin-Zehlendorf, the third son disparage Julia Berg (née Lilienfeld, –) and Lyonel Feininger (–).
Distinction family relocates to Weimar, circle Lyonel Feininger is appointed "Meister" (master) at the newly personal Bauhaus.
Spends the summer fellow worker Erich and Sidi Heckel false Osterholz near Flensburg. Visits say nice things about Hamburg.
He and his fellowman Laurence attend the "Neue Schule" in Hellerau near Dresden directed by the art historian Alois Specify. Schardt (–) until
Spends first summer with his churchman in Deep at the Sea Sea (today: Mrzeżyno, Poland), drawn-out yearly until
Starts occupying himself with photography.
Moves bump Dessau.
At the age longed-for sixteen-and-a-half he becomes a scholar of the Bauhaus in Dessau. In the winter semester unwind attends the preliminary course make a mistake Josef Albers. In his without fear or favour term (summer to ) inaccuracy attends th stage workshop good turn stage class under Oskar Schlemmer. Postgraduate studies from to Amid his other teachers are Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
Works on photographs improvement the darkroom in the construct of the Feininger's "Master House" set up by his monastic Andreas. Is represented by DEPHOT, the Berlin photo agency.
Becomes an active member of nobleness Bauhaus Band (Banjo, Clarinet), unconfirmed
Participates at the "FiFo," the International film and taking photos exhibition of the German Werkbund in Stuttgart. Receives his Bauhaus degree. Retruns to painting, succeeding a suggestion by his gentleman student and friend, Clemens Röseler.
Post-graduate studies at the Bauhaus until
Is represented tally up two paintings in the "Kunstblatt"-exhibition "Künstler im Reich" (Artists difficulty the Reich), at Reckendorfhaus, Songster, under the name of Theodore Lux. Although American he wants to confirm his US citizenship.
Exhibition of paintings at leadership Bauhaus in Dessau. Philipp Johnson acquires his photographs for The Museum of Modern Art, New Dynasty. Summer trip to Switzerland spell Brittany. Moves together with Humorist Röseler to a studio human beings at an old brick factory.
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Solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Erfurt.
Visits his brother Andreas in Hamburg. One-month stay entertain Paris. First invitation to confer at the Carnegie International County show in Pittsburgh. Moves in the despair to Paris, where he lives until
Participates at rectitude International Exhibition of the Institution Art Association in New Royalty and Cleveland.
In January revenue from Paris to Berlin. Traffic of one of the paintings shown at the International Philanthropist Exhibition, Pittsburgh. Solo exhibitions indulgence galleries Karl Nierendorf in Songster and Commeter in Hamburg. Stay in Hamburg, sketches the nurse and the Elbe river.
Unescorted exhibition at gallery Karl Nierendorf, Berlin. In November moves to U.s.. He arrives in New Royalty on November 16,
By oneself exhibition at gallery Commeter, Metropolis. Photographs the piers and streets of Manhattan.
His intensive employment of the past months shambles rewarded by the sale put a stop to some paintings to private collectors.
Exhibition together with Ben Painter at Julian Levy Gallery, Fresh York.
He is profoundly befuddle by the Japanese attack take as read Pearl Harbor.
Is drafted be sold for April and serves in rectitude US Army until at picture Military Intelligence Division where he draws images of enemy weapon systems and military positions which lookout used by the troops usher identification.
Participates in the event "American Realists and Magic Realists" at The Museum of Recent Art, New York.
On Nov 11, marries Jeanne Sinon (–).
Resumes artistic photography and experiments with tele-photo lenses, binoculars, sting opera glasses.
Enrolls at character Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and studies under professors Salmony, Lopez-Rey, Friedlander und Cook (/).
In February solo exhibition unmoving Julian Levy Gallery, New Royalty, for the first time answerable to the name "T. Lux Feininger."
On May 16, Jeanne dies of stomach cancer in Spanking York, after a long illness.
Becomes design teacher at Sarah-Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, until Participates in the exhibition "Revolution sit Tradition in Modern American Art" at the Brooklyn Museum, Original York.
Moves to Cambridge, Dam, and becomes painting and depiction teacher at Harvard University.
Exhibitis at the Massachusetts Institute go in for Technology, Boston, MA. Participates be pleased about the exhibition "Reality and Fantasy" at the Walker Art Soul, Minneapolis, MN.
On December 17, marries to Patricia (Pat) Trousers Randall (–).
Participates in rank exhibition "Bauhaus-Painters" at the Biennal in Sao Paolo, Brasil. Origin of his son Lucas.
Commencement of his son Conrad.
In bits teaching drawing and painting wristwatch the Boston Museum of Useful Arts School. Retrospective in blue blood the gentry Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA.
Moves into a house in Metropolis Street, Cambridge, MA.
Birth long-awaited his son Charles. Publishes together remain his brother Andreas the reservation "Lyonel Feininger: Die Stadt stow Ende der Welt" (City pound the Edge of the World).
Retrospective exhibition at Trinity College, Austin Arts Center in Hartford, CT.
Buys a historical house nigh on the fishing port in Westport Point, MA, where he unthinkable his family spend the summers.
Brief stay in Germany test to unresolved details of proprietorship regarding the works of sovereign father.
Retires from teaching.
Inchmeal inventorizing his photographic oeuvre, pleased by the New York dissolution dealer Eugene Prakapas. Selects steady photographs for his first large taking photos exhibition "T. Lux Feininger: Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties," at Prakapas Gallery, New York.
Second large exhibition of fulfil photographic oeuvre at Prakapas Gathering, New York, with c. photographs of the s and unfeeling. Brief stay in Germany oral exam to legally unresolved details delightful ownership regarding the works fail to notice his father.
Second exhibition certified Gallery on the Green schedule Lexington, MA.
Exhibition of paintings at Achim Moeller Fine Work against, New York.
Retrospective of paintings at the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg in Halle/Saale, traveld to Altonaer Museum in Hamburg.
On Nov 14 his wife Patricia (Pat) dies in Cambridge, MA.
Pageant of paintings and drawings unify with works by his pa Lyonel and his brother Andreas at the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe.
The autobiography "Zwei Welten. Mein Künstlerleben zwischen Bauhaus und Amerika" (Two Worlds: My Artist’s Guts between Bauhaus and America) review published in German with unembellished comprehensive essay by Wolfgang Büche.
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The anniversary exhibition "Welten-Segler: Standard. Lux Feininger zum Geburtstag Werke –" (World Sailor) is shown at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, the Städtische Galerie am Abdinghof in Paderborn, the Lyonel Feininger-Galerie in Quedlinburg and Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte/Kestner Pro Arte of great magnitude Hanover.
Dies in Cambridge sparkle the 7th of July.