Cubism, New York

From Caricaturist to Modern Classic: 150th Birthday of Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger, born in New York on July 17, 1871, loved the idyll – and translated it into an abstract language of forms. The paintings by the Bauhaus teacher, inspired by Thuringian village churches or the Baltic Sea, are part of the canon of modern art.