Modern artists that everyone thinks they know are subject to a certain schematism of perception. Giacometti? The one with the stalagmite men. Modigliani? Apricot-colored beauties in the shape of Schupfnudeln. Kandinsky? Ratatouille of shapes and colors. Braque? Still life as avalanches of cubes. This is also the case with Lyonel Feininger. Anyone who imagines art by the famous American, who taught at the Bauhaus with Klee and Kandinsky, immediately sees churches, sailing boats and landscapes kaleidoscopically dissected and reaching Gothically towards the sky.
Large retrospective of Lyonel Feininger in the Schirn Frankfurt – Kultur
