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By: SUSAN H. KAHN Assistant Editor
Contessa Gallery exhibit “Brush & Lens” shows artistic legacy of the Feininger family
Lyonel Feininger was a painter, caricaturist and printmaker. His son Andreas became a renowned photojournalist. Although of different generations and working in different media, each made great contributions to 20th-century art.
To mark the 50th anniversary of Lyonel Feininger’s death and the 100th anniversary of Andreas Feininger’s birth, the Contessa Gallery at Legacy Village is mounting an exhibit that places works by the talented father and son side by side, allowing the viewer to discover parallels in their artistic vision. The exhibit includes numerous works by Lyonel Feininger and over 40 famous photographs by Andreas Feininger, including 20 rare, one-of-a-kind vintage photographs.
“I feel there are a lot of similarities in the works of the two men, but no one had thought of putting them together in a show before,” says gallery owner Steve Hartman. “I’ve been selling Andreas’s photographs for five years, but this is the first time Lyonel’s work will be shown in Cleveland.”
Lyonel Feininger was born in New York in 1871, but he grew up in Berlin. He began his career as a cartoonist for a number of German, French and American magazines.
After a few years, Lyonel abandoned illustration for painting and drawing. He was deeply influenced by the Futurists, and he adopted a prismatic style, using facets to form three-dimensional objects. When paint became very costly during the First World War, he began making woodcuts.
In the 1930s the Nazis declared Feininger’s work “degenerated art.” That act, coupled with the fact that his wife Julia (née Lilienfeld) was Jewish, led Feininger to move his family to the US in 1937. Skyscrapers became a new motif, and Lyonel began working in watercolors.
Andreas Feininger was born in Paris in 1906 and trained as an architect in Germany. He began using a camera as a reference aid in creating his building designs, but when commissions became scarce, he turned his attention to photography full-time. He moved to the US in 1939 and became a staff photographer for LIFE magazine in 1943; he completed 430 LIFE assignments over a 20-year span.
Famous for his photographs of New York, Andreas captured the drama and grandeur of skyscrapers, the bold geometry of broad avenues, ships and bridges.
“Andreas’s work,” says Hartman. “exemplifies the statement, ‘great photographs are made, not taken.’”
“Brush & Lens: the Feininger family legacy” opens at the Contessa Gallery with champagne receptions Fri., May 5, and Sat., May 6, from 6-9 p.m. The exhibit continues through May 28th.
Lyonel Feininger was a painter, caricaturist and printmaker. His son Andreas became a renowned photojournalist. Although of different generations and working in different media, each made great contributions to 20th-century art.
To mark the 50th anniversary of Lyonel Feininger’s death and the 100th anniversary of Andreas Feininger’s birth, the Contessa Gallery at Legacy Village is mounting an exhibit that places works by the talented father and son side by side, allowing the viewer to discover parallels in their artistic vision. The exhibit includes numerous works by Lyonel Feininger and over 40 famous photographs by Andreas Feininger, including 20 rare, one-of-a-kind vintage photographs.
“I feel there are a lot of similarities in the works of the two men, but no one had thought of putting them together in a show before,” says gallery owner Steve Hartman. “I’ve been selling Andreas’s photographs for five years, but this is the first time Lyonel’s work will be shown in Cleveland.”
Lyonel Feininger was born in New York in 1871, but he grew up in Berlin. He began his career as a cartoonist for a number of German, French and American magazines.
After a few years, Lyonel abandoned illustration for painting and drawing. He was deeply influenced by the Futurists, and he adopted a prismatic style, using facets to form three-dimensional objects. When paint became very costly during the First World War, he began making woodcuts.
In the 1930s the Nazis declared Feininger’s work “degenerated art.” That act, coupled with the fact that his wife Julia (née Lilienfeld) was Jewish, led Feininger to move his family to the US in 1937. Skyscrapers became a new motif, and Lyonel began working in watercolors.
Andreas Feininger was born in Paris in 1906 and trained as an architect in Germany. He began using a camera as a reference aid in creating his building designs, but when commissions became scarce, he turned his attention to photography full-time. He moved to the US in 1939 and became a staff photographer for LIFE magazine in 1943; he completed 430 LIFE assignments over a 20-year span.
Famous for his photographs of New York, Andreas captured the drama and grandeur of skyscrapers, the bold geometry of broad avenues, ships and bridges.
“Andreas’s work,” says Hartman. “exemplifies the statement, ‘great photographs are made, not taken.’”
“Brush & Lens: the Feininger family legacy” opens at the Contessa Gallery with champagne receptions Fri., May 5, and Sat., May 6, from 6-9 p.m. The exhibit continues through May 28th.
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