Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York and studied between 1887-1893 in Hamburg, Berlin, Liège and Paris. In 1893, he settled in Berlin where he became a successful cartoonist and illustrator for newspapers and journals in the following…

The ability to constantly wheel and turn to confront a new visual puzzle was a challenge and a joy to Feininger. Throughout the 1920s he could produce memorable serial works on a theme, such as the church at Gelmeroda, or here, produce an…

Feininger loved to cycle around the villages near his home and studio, and Gelmeroda, a small village near Weimar with its wooden church became a favourite motif. Feininger first drew the church in 1906, going on to produce numerous prints and…

The square adjoining the City Church in Weimar is the subject of this picture. Feininger knew Weimar from pre-war visits but needed distance from location and in time for a vision to grow in his mind. His technique of the precise overlapping and…

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery We are proud to host the largest collection of German Expressionist artwork in the UK, and with support from Arts Council England have re-displayed the collection. Our new gallery uses cutting edge museum design…

Leicester’s internationally acclaimed collection of German Expressionist art, and the eighty-year history of its development, are being celebrated in a new book. ‘German Expressionism: The Leicester Museums and Galleries’ Collection’ presents a full…

Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977) was born in Dresden, where he also studied. In 1915 he met Ludwig Meidner, with whom he shared a studio in Berlin, and in 1916 he and Lyonel Feininger exhibited in Herwarth Walden’s Gallery der Sturm. He served as a…

Year of production 1944 Publisher Leicester Museum Service Medium Leaflet Materials Paper, ink Credit Line Presented by Peter Romilly Dimensions height: 20 cm; width: 12.6 cm   Exhibition catalogue of 'Mid-European Art', February 5-27…

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was born in Moscow and emigrated at the age of thirty to Munich to study painting. In 1902 he met artist Gabriele Münter with whom he had a relationship until the outbreak of the First World War. Between 1908 and 1914…

Alexander Kanoldt was born 29 September 1881 in Karlsruhe, Germany and died in 1939. Kanoldt went to Munich in 1908 and joined with the progressive artists who formed the New Artists Association. When the Association split over Kandinsky’s move to…