
Lyonel Feininger's Water Color of Eutin
The art gallery of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, is the proud owner of Lyonel Feininger's original water color of 1925. Feininger (1871-1956) lived and worked in Germany for most of his career as an artist. He participated in the exhibitions of expressionistic artists and was referred to as one of the "Blue Four," (together with Javlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee). One of the teachers of the Bauhaus, after 1933 he was labeled as a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis. He returned to the United States in 1937, where he became a friend of Lawrence artist Albert Bloch. The art museum of Eutin, previously unaware of this work of art, is tentatively planning an exhibition of Feininger's works some time in the coming years to feature Feininger's abstract view of St. Michael's church and surrounding buildings.
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