Lyonel Feininger

Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17 1871 – January 13 1956); was a German-American painter and caricaturist. Feininger was born to parents of German descent and grew up in New York City. He moved to Berlin, in 1887, to study at the Königliche Akademie Berlin under Ernst Hancke and art schools in Berlin with Karl Schlabitz and in Paris with sculptor Filippo Colarossi. He started working as a caricaturist for several magazines including Harper's Round Table, Harper's Young People, Humoristische Blätter, Lustige Blätter, Das Narrenschiff, Berliner Tageblatt and Ulk. Feininger married Clara Fürst, daughter of the painter Gustav Fürst and they had two daughters. He also had several children with Julia Berg whom he later married. The artist is represented with drawings at the exhibitions of the annual Berlin Secession in the years 1901 through 1903. Feininger only started working as an artist at the age of 36, after having worked as a commercial caricaturist for twenty years for...