Feininger, Lyonel Charles Adrian (1871–1956)
US abstract artist, an early cubist. He worked at the Bauhaus school of design and architecture in Germany 1919–33, and later helped to found the Bauhaus in Chicago. Inspired by cubism and der Blaue Reiter, he developed a style based on translucent geometric planes arranged in subtle harmonic patterns.
Feininger was born in New York, the son of German immigrants. While in Germany, he formed the Blaue Vier (Blue Four) 1924 with the painters Alexei von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. He returned to the USA after the rise of the Nazis.
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