Theodore Lux Feininger

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Theodore Lux (Lukas) Feininger (born June 11, 1910 in Berlin ; † July 7, 2011 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was a German - American photographer and painter . He was the youngest son of the painter Lyonel Feininger and his wife Julia .

Life

Feininger studied art at the Bauhaus in Dessau , worked there on the experimental stage and was a member of the jazz band. Later, like his brother Andreas and like his half-sister Lore , he devoted himself to photography. In 1930 he began to paint. After several years in Paris , he returned to Germany in 1935 and emigrated to New York in 1936.

Feininger was married twice. His first wife Jeanne died a few years after the wedding. In 1954 he married Patricia Randall. He was the father of three sons: Lucas, Conrad (* 1959), who works as an actor, and Charles Feininger (* 1966). Lux Feininger was 101 years old and died on July 7, 2011 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Act

Since the 1950s he has devoted himself exclusively to painting. The influence of the Bauhaus school can always be felt in his works, but Feininger developed his own unmistakable style. Until 1947 he signed his pictures with the pseudonym "Theodor Lux". In Germany, the artist only achieved greater fame in 1998 through a major exhibition in the Moritzburg State Gallery ( Halle ). In addition to painting, he was active as a writer and teacher in New York, Harvard and Boston. T. Lux Feininger lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts until his death. On his 100th birthday, the Kunsthalle Kiel honored him in 2010 with an exhibition.

literature

  • Two worlds. My artist life between Bauhaus and America. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 3-89812-346-4 .
  • Feininger A family of artists . Edited by Wolfgang Buche, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-77571-036-1
  • Feininger, T (heodor) Lux (Lukas). In: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss , (Ed.), International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 1, Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 287
  • Wolfgang Büche: Feininger, T Lux . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 37, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22777-9 , pp. 555-557.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bauhaus artist Theodore Lux Feininger died. In: news.orf.at. July 8, 2011, accessed October 22, 2017 .
  2. ^ MZ: grandson of the "house god" is amazed at the Moritzburg
  3. ↑ 53 years old according to mdr article in August 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Feininger, Theodore Lux
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lux, Theodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American photographer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2011
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts