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Lyonel Feininger

1871 to 1956 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Lyonel Feininger across 3 places, from 1888 to 1919. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger (July 17, 1871 to January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Lyonel Feininger was documented, and when

1888year
Academy of Arts, Berlinattested “In 1888, he moved to Berlin and studied at the Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin under Ernst Hancke.” source: Wikipedia: Lyonel Feininger
1888year
Berlinattested “In 1888, he moved to Berlin and studied at the Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin under Ernst Hancke.” source: Wikipedia: Lyonel Feininger
1919year
Germanyattested “When Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Germany in 1919, Feininger was his first faculty appointment, and became the master artist in charge of the printmaking workshop.” source: Wikipedia: Lyonel Feininger

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Places Lyonel Feininger is documented in

Berlin1 presence · 1888Germany1 presence · 1919
Academy of Arts, Berlin1 presence · 1888

Other places tied to Lyonel Feininger in the record

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1887year
University of Fine Arts of Hamburgmentioned “In 1887 he traveled to Germany at the age of 16 to study music, but switched to study drawing at the Hamburger Gewerbeschule.” source: Wikipedia: Lyonel Feininger
1887year
Germanymentioned “In 1887 he traveled to Germany at the age of 16 to study music, but switched to study drawing at the Hamburger Gewerbeschule.” source: Wikipedia: Lyonel Feininger
February 1906month
Germanymentioned “In February 1906, when a quarter of Chicago's population was of German descent, James Keeley, editor of The Chicago Tribune traveled to Germany to procure the services of the most popular humor artists.” source: Wikipedia: Lyonel Feininger
1917year
Berlinmentioned “His first solo exhibit was at Sturm Gallery in Berlin, 1917.” source: Wikipedia: Lyonel Feininger
1936 to 1937period
Munichmentioned “They moved to America after his work was exhibited in the 'degenerate art' (Entartete Kunst) in 1936, but before the 1937 exhibition in Munich.” source: Wikipedia: Lyonel Feininger
1936 to 1937period
Americamentioned “They moved to America after his work was exhibited in the 'degenerate art' (Entartete Kunst) in 1936, but before the 1937 exhibition in Munich.” source: Wikipedia: Lyonel Feininger

Documented at the same place, the same year

Thomas EdisonGermany · 1888Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-EisenachGermany · 1888Reinhard ScheerGermany · 1888Ernst CassirerHumboldt University of Berlin · 1919Max von LaueHumboldt University of Berlin · 1919Roland FreislerHumboldt University of Berlin · 1919Alfred DöblinHumboldt University of Berlin · 1919Hermann OberthHumboldt University of Berlin · 1919Oskar SchlemmerHumboldt University of Berlin · 1919Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and GothaHumboldt University of Berlin · 1919Magnus HirschfeldHumboldt University of Berlin · 1919Hans ScharounHumboldt University of Berlin · 1919

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