Biografie von Theodore Lux FEININGER (1910-2011)

Birth place: Berlin, Germany

Addresses: NYC, 1947; Cambridge, MA, 1973

Profession: Painter, illustrator, writer, teacher, photographer

Studied: Bauhaus, Dessau, Gemany, 1926-32 (with Paul Klee, W. Kandinsky & Josef Albers, stage design with Oskar Schlemmer; rec'd. dipl., 1929); Inst. Fine Arts, New York Univ., 1946-47, with Salmony, Lopez-Rey, Cook & Friedlaender.

Exhibited: Bauhaus, Weimar, Dessau, Germany; Carnegie Inst., 1932-33, 1935-36, 1938, 1946 (always as Theodore Lux); AIC, 1938-42 (as Theodore Lux); "American Realists & Magic Realists," MoMA, 1943; WMAA, 1944 (as Theodore Lux); PAFA Ann., 1944; Corcoran Gal., 1947; Arts & Crafts Club, New Orleans, 1948 (hon. men.); Revolution & Tradition in Modern American Art, Brooklyn Mus., 1951; Four American Painters, MIT, Cambridge, 1954; Busch-Reisinger Mus., 1962 (retrospective); Cambridge Art Assn., 1963 (hon. men.)

Member: Cambridge Art Assn.; Westport Art Group.

Work: MoMA; Busch-Reisinger Mus., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass.; Fogg Art Mus., Harvard Univ.; Altonaer Mus., Hamburg, Germany.

Comments: Son of Lyonel Feininger, he exhibited as Theodore Lux at the beginning of his career. Teaching: instr. design, Sarah Lawrence Col., 1950-52; Harvard Univ., 1953-62; BMFA Sch., 1962-70s. Author: "The Bauhaus: Evolution of an Idea," Criticism, (Summer 1960); Lyonel Feininger: City at the Edge of the World (Praeger, 1965); "Address on Modern Art," Harvard Art Review (1966); "The Heritage of Lyonel Feininger," American-German Review, (1966).

Sources: WW73; WW 47; American Realists & Magic Realists exh. cat. (MoMA, 1943); Thomas Hess, "Profile," Art News (February, 1947); "Feininger Family," Life Magazine (November 1951); Falk, Exh. Record Series.