Art Art &Bill Peckmann &Comic Art &Illustration 18 Jan 2011 08:08 am
Feininger – 2
- Last week, I posted some examples of Lyonel Feininger‘s comic strip art, panels from his 1906 strip for the Chicago Tribune, The Kin-der-kids.
As I pointed out, then, he left comic strips in 1906 and moved onto fine Art painting. This week, I’d like to look at the painting part of his early career.
Bill Peckmann has in his wonderful collection the brochures for two art exhibits that took place in the 80s. He’s sent me material from both brochures that I’d like to post here. The first was a show that took place at the Achim Moeller Fine Art Gallery in New York. Here is the NYTimes review for that show:
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Paris chimneys 1906
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Steam Train 1908
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Cover of second gallery brochure
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Cover of booklet for second gallery show.
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Title page
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Lyonel Feininger
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Haystacks 1907
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Steeple Behind Trees 1907
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Edge of the Wood, Lobbe 1907
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Arcueil I 1907
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The Proposal 1906
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Pedestrians 1908
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Carnival in Gelmeroda II 1909
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Small Blue Locomotive 1909
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Newspaper Readers 1909
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Carnival in Arcueil 1911
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Velocipedists 1910
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Still Life 1912
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Bridge O 1912
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Newspaper Readers II 1916
Many thanks to Bill Peckmann for this material.
Next week examples of Wee Willie Winkie
on 18 Jan 2011 at 2:13 pm 1.Eddie Fitzgerald said …
An amazing post! Many thanks to you and Bill Peckmann for putting it up! Thanks also to the NYT critic who did a good job of explaining the pictures.
Now I understand why Feinenger left cartooning. Expessionism opened up a lot of new territory for artists and there must have been a rush to see who could make the most important fundamental discoveries.
The pictures here are the best Feiningers I’ve seen; a real revelation. I still believe he should have stuck with cartooning and illustration, though. The cartoon influence is still present in his paintings, and it’s a bit incongruous.
Cartoonists use drawings to tell a story. For us a bowl of fruit, no matter how well executed, is a prop waiting to be used. For easal painters the bowl of fruit is an excuse to meditate on design and color, and the mysterious physicality of things. It’s two different ways of seeing the world, and there’s surprisingly few examples of crossover.
Even so, the world would be poorer if even a single Feinenger painting were lost. There’s some real nice work here.
on 18 Jan 2011 at 4:58 pm 2.Eric Noble said …
So incredible!!!!! I bow in respect to this man!! A few of these paintings remind me of Mary Blair. Perhaps she was influenced by his work. Thanks for the newspaper article. I will have to study modernism a bit more.
on 18 Jan 2011 at 6:04 pm 3.Ray Kosarin said …
These are knockouts. He’s an astonishing painter. A palette rooted in the fauve era, with an almost lusty mixing of paint right on the canvas and improbable collisions of color that also recall Cezanne, but with a giddier spin. He dutifully takes Cubism for a test drive, but finds more joy in giving it flight, as Klee did. And he shares more than a little of Chagall’s poetic fantasy. And he steals from photography to introduce a devil-may care cropping in these, nonetheless, beautifully engineered compositions. He escapes academic fuss and simply delights in everything he paints–a joy. We need another show like this and we need it now!
on 18 Jan 2011 at 9:46 pm 4.Hieronymus Dekker said …
These paintings must have influenced the style of “Yellow Submarine” (1968). 17 and 21, especially. It’s uncanny.
on 20 Jan 2011 at 2:22 am 5.Robert Schaad said …
I’m continually astounded every time I come across LF’s work, regardless of the period or genre. It’s refreshing that he tried out so many techniques.
Given the time period in which he made the switch from cartooning to fine art, it might have been difficult to do both (high art vs. low art)and be taken seriously as a painter.
on 03 Dec 2013 at 5:31 am 6.Rebecca said …
Does anyone know where to get prints of many of these paintings. Art.com only has a few of his more cubistic paintings but none of the absolutely incredible whimsical ones above.
Newspaper readers
Pedestrians
The proposal
And my absolute LOVE Arcueil I
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