Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Lyonel Feininger

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American painter Lyonel Feininger.
Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Lyonel Feininger

Lyonel Charles Feininger was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germany at 16 to study and perfect his art. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with much success in this area. He was also a commercial caricaturist for 20 years for magazines and newspapers in the USA and Germany. At the age of 36, he started to work as a fine artist. He also produced a large body of photographic works between 1928 and the mid 1950s, but he kept these primarily within his circle of friends. He was also a pianist and composer, with several piano compositions and fugues for organ extant.

Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.
There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships — © Lyonel Feininger
There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships
Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.
The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.
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