Galerie Henze & Ketterer is currently hosting a solo exhibition by Lyonel Feininger titled “Lyonel Feininger’s nature studies in and around Weimar — Attunement to 100th years Bauhaus.” The exhibition showcases a collection of works by Feininger. These works are based on the time the artist spent in Weimar. When Feininger first traveled to Weimar to visit his second wife Julia, he often went to the area in and around Weimar and created drawings in front of nature. Here he created his “nature notes,” a type of visual diary, which he filed in a folder and later brought out as templates for his paintings. These were affectionate, abstracting documentaries of the cities and landscapes of Weimar and its surroundings, a clinging to what was seen in small-format leaves. A longer stay in the area took place between 1913 and 1914 and again from 1919, when he was appointed to the local Bauhaus. It was especially the architecture with its outstanding churches, with towers, but also streets with houses, bridges and again and again the open landscape that Feininger painted with mature representations in small format. For this he traveled not only the city of Weimar, but also the surrounding, idyllic villages.Lyonel Feininger was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germany at 16 to study and perfect his art. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with much success. He was also a commercial caricaturist for 20 years for magazines and newspapers in the US and Germany. Feininger produced a large body of photographic works between 1928 and the mid-1950s. He kept his photographic work within his circle of friends, and it was not shared with the public in his lifetime. He gave some prints away to his colleagues Walter Gropius and Alfred H. Barr, Jr.He was also a pianist and composer, with several piano compositions and fugues for organ extant. A major retrospective exhibition of Lyonel Feininger’s work was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2011.The exhibition will be on view through September 29, 2018, at Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Kirchstrasse 26, 3114 Wichtrach, Switzerland.For details visit: http://www.henze-ketterer.chClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin
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