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Also Known As Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger
Born July 17, 1871 • New York City • New York
Died January 13, 1956 (aged 84) • New York City • New York
Movement / Style Der Blaue Reiter • Die Blaue Vier
Notable Family Members son Andreas Feininger

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George Grosz.
George Grosz
German artist
Keppler, Joseph: A Mid-Summer Day's Dream
Joseph Keppler
American caricaturist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
László Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian artist
George Cruikshank
British artist
Miguel Covarrubias
Mexican painter and writer
Pellegrini, Carlo: drawing of T.H. Huxley
Carlo Pellegrini
Italian caricaturist
Caran d’Ache
Russian-French caricaturist
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
Portrait of a Girl, oil painting by Alexey von Jawlensky, 1909; in the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Alexey von Jawlensky
Russian painter
Harvey Kurtzman
American cartoonist
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
William Steig
William Steig
American cartoonist and author
Woodruff, Hale
Hale Woodruff
American painter, draftsman, printer, and educator

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