LYONEL FEININGER
LA VARIANTE TEMATICA E TECNICA NELLO SVILUPPO DEL PROCESSO CREATIVO
Bruno Monguzzi [Designer]
Manuela Kahn-Rossi [Direttore-Conservatore del Museo Cantonale d'Arte]: LYONEL FEININGER: LA VARIANTE TEMATICA E TECNICA NELLO SVILUPPO DEL PROCESSO CREATIVO. Lugano: Fidia Edizioni d'Arte, 1991. First edition. INSCRIBED by Bruno Monguzzi on the last page [printer's imprint and copyright page]: "To H & G [Helen & Gene Federico]." Text in Italian. A very good or better soft cover book with French folded thick printed wrappers and minor shelf wear including an ink smear on the front cover and slight rubbing on the back cover. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Designed by Bruno Monguzzi.
10 x 11 soft cover book with 256 pages with approx. 225 illustrations, some in color. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name: Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano [Sept 7 - Nov 10, 1991].
Contents
Lyonel Feininger: un complesso percorso creativo all'insegna della purezza formale by Manuela Kahn-Rossi
Gli esordi dimenticatai by Ulrich Luckhardt
Tecniche dell'artista" by T. Lux Feininger
Biografia
Catalogo
I. Gli esordi e la caricatura; II. Le prime opere pittoriche; III. Il disegno dal vero e la scoperta della natura; IV. La citta ai confini del mondo; V. La genesi di un tema; VI. Il soggiorno a Parigi; VII. Il paesaggio e la ricerca di una nuova struttura spaziale; VIII. Spiagge e orizzonti; IX. Il raggiungimento dell'Indipendenza formale; X. Gelmeroda; XI. L'autoritratto e Julia; XII. L'attività artistica negli anni della prima guerra mondiale; XIII. L'architettura; XIV. Zirchow; XV. Il ponte, l'ultima versione; XVI. L'attivita al Bauhaus e l'opera silografica; XVII. Architektur II e Lady in Mauve, XVIII. Il ritorno del paesaggio; XIX. La foce del Rega; XX. La varieta dei temi; XXI. La rovina; XXII. Gli ultimi anni in Europa; XXIII. Manhattan; XXIV. Glia anni Quaranta; XXV. L'ultimo periodo
Bibliographica
Also includes Ringraziamenti, Fotografie, Sommario
Excerpted from the web site for American Art @ The Phillips Collection: "In 1913, he was invited to exhibit his works with the German 'Blue Rider' group, whose members advocated an expressive, abstract style, which appealed to the young Feininger. In 1919, he joined the faculty of the Bauhaus, where he taught alongside the leading modern artists and architects of the day. Feininger remained on the Bauhaus faculty until the Nazis closed the school in 1933. Up until this time, his art was collected and featured in many museums throughout Germany, but under Hitler's rule, his works and those of his fellow modern artists were banned and removed from public view.
In the mid-1930s, Feininger returned to the United States, where he had not lived since his departure in 1887. He went to California, where a number of German emigre artists had settled, and began teaching at Mills College in Oakland. In 1938 he moved permanently to New York, and was invited to provide murals for the 1939 New York World's Fair."