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_ Lyonel Feininger: The spiritual space/Der geistige Raum

Lyonel Feininger: The spiritual space/Der geistige Raum
Exhibition in preparation for 2011
Exhibition curated by Danilo Curti and Maurizio Scudiero
Catalogue by esaExpoedizioni

Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Born in New York into a German family, he moved to Germany whilst still very young, in 1887. He started his career as an illustrator for satirical magazines, around the same time as he started to paint. His first exhibition was at the “Salon des Indépendantes” in Paris in 1911, when he was already forty years old. In 1919 Walter Gropius invited him to join the Bauhaus in Weimar. Five years later – with Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Alexej von Jawlensky – he founded the “Die Blaue Vier” group (The Blue Four). In 1936 he moved back permanently to the USA. In 1944 the Moma in New York dedicated a major retrospective to him in full recognition of his greatness. Feininger achieved great success not only with his painting on canvas but also with watercolours - in which he is justly considered one of the masters of the twentieth century - and with drawings and woodcuts. The artist's key themes have been used to inform the structure of the exhibition, which is subdivided into ten sections (Caricatures and Cartoons, The Human Comedy, Characters of the Old and the New World, “Genius Loci”, Gelmeroda, Die Brücke, Seascapes, Manhattan, Feininger through the eyes of Kandinsky, Klee, Jawlwnsky, Kubin, Hekel and Lehmbruck, and Letters to Laurence Feininger). The show contains around 150 works loaned from museums from all over the world and from private collections. A 208-page dual language (Italian/German) catalogue - with three critical introductory essays and 160 illustrations - accompanies the exhibition, featuring all the materials on display.