Lyonel Feininger

Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) was a German-American painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. Born in New York, he moved to Germany at the age of 16. During the 1910s, he increasingly turned to oil and watercolor painting, often depicting the sea and ships. He later explored printmaking techniques including lithography, etching, and woodcut. From 1919 to 1932, Feininger taught at the Bauhaus, where he was among its early masters. He returned to the United States in 1937 and created two murals for the 1939–40 New York World's Fair.