Lyonel Feininger

born: New York, New York

died: New York, New York

Biography review 1936 – 1938

• May 1936 Feininger returned to NYC; first time since leaving for Germany in 1887

• June 12, 1936 Met with his West Coast dealer, Galka Scheyer, in Los Angeles;

taught a class at Mills College in Oakland; laid groundwork for return to United States

• August 1936 Returned to Hamburg, Germany where his work was included in the

Deutscher Kuenstlerbund exhibition Deutsche Kunst im Olympiajahr; ten days after his arrival, the exhibition was closed and the DK group outlawed

• June 11, 1937 Boarded ship for NY

• July 19, 1937 Entartete Kunst exhibition opened in Munich; 8 paintings, 1 watercolor and

13 woodcuts by Feininger included; 378 Feininger works confiscated from public collections in Germany

• Summer 1937 Taught at Mills College

• 1938 Took up residence in NYC

(Source: Stephanie Barron. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991. pp. 232-236)