El dibujo y la arquitectura en la obra de Lyonel Feininger: del prismatismo cubista a la abstracción espiritual

[EN] This article pays homage to the German-American painter and teacher Lyonel Feininger, one of the great masters of the Bauhaus, upon the hundredth anniversary of his first solo exhibition in Berlin in 1917. Feininger was an independent and very versatile artist. He was a great cultivator of draw...

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Author: Linares García, Fernando
Format: article
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:Spanish
English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/119216
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/119216
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Lyonel Feininger
Dibujo de arquitectura
Vanguardias
Cubismo
Bauhaus
Architectural drawings
Avantgarde movements
Cubism
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Summary:[EN] This article pays homage to the German-American painter and teacher Lyonel Feininger, one of the great masters of the Bauhaus, upon the hundredth anniversary of his first solo exhibition in Berlin in 1917. Feininger was an independent and very versatile artist. He was a great cultivator of drawing as the beginning and the end of his work, especially when it came to sketching in situ. He mastered a multitude of graphic and pictorial techniques, including comics, cartoons, engravings, charcoals, watercolours, oils and modelling. He drew on numerous avant-garde movements, from expressionism to abstraction, cubism and orphism, and this culminated in his own “prismism,” though he never became fully linked with any movement in particular. What made him stand out during his lifetime was his visual evolution and a very personal spiritual quest, which this text provides an account of.