ger would not resume his photographic practice
until 1946, after three years of service in World
War II with the U.S. Army. Though he did not
publish or exhibit his work during this period, Fei-
ninger describes the years between 1946 and 1952 as
a time when he ‘‘worked the most intensely and
consciously at the problems of photography’’ that
led to ‘‘a fruitful interchange [between his] photo-
graphy and painting’’ (Feininger,T. Lux Feininger:
Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties, unpagi-
nated preface).
In the years following 1952, Feininger once more
left photography behind in order to pursue paint-
ing and to work as a teacher at Sarah Lawrence
College, Harvard, and finally at the Boston Mu-
seum School of Fine Arts from 1962 to 1975. He
has since enjoyed a successful career as a painter
but will be forever regarded as an important practi-
tioner of the modern New Vision style of photo-
graphy popularized in Germany in the late 1920s.
LEESARITTELMANNSeealso:Feininger, Andreas; History of Photogra-
phy: Interwar Years; Moholy-Nagy, La ́szlo ́; Peter-
hans, Walter; Photography in Europe: Germany and
Austria
Biography
Born Theodore Lucas Feininger in Berlin, Germany, 11
June 1910. Studied at Bauhaus Institute for Architecture
and Design, Dessau, Germany, 1926–1929, and under-
took post-graduate studies at the Bauhaus, 1929–1932.
Freelance photojournalist for Dephot, 1928–1929; parti-
cipated in StuttgartFilm und Fotoexhibition, 1929; emi-
grated to New York City, 1936. Served in the United
States Army during World War II, 1942–1945. Design
Instructor, Sarah Lawrence College, 1950–1952; Lec-
turer in Drawing and Painting at Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, 1953–1961; Instructor in Drawing and
Painting, Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, 1962–
1975.
Individual Exhibitions
1930 Theodor Lux; Berlin, Germany
1931 T. Lux Feininger; Kunstverein; Erfurt, Germany
1935 T. Lux Feininger; Nierendorf Gallery; New York, New
York (with subsequent solo exhibitions in 1936 and 1937)
1945 Stuart Art Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts
1947 T. Lux Feininger; Julien Levy Gallery; New York,
New York
1949 United Nations Club; Washington, D.C.
1950 Edwin Hewitt Gallery; New York, New York
1955 Behn-Moore Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1956 Cambridge Art Association; Cambridge, Massachu-
setts (subsequent solo exhibition in 1971)
1958 Design Corporation; Boston, Massachusetts (with
subsequent solo exhibition in 1959)
1962 T. Lux Feininger Retrospective; Busche-Reisinger
Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts
1973 Wheaton College; Northhampton, Massachusetts
1980 Prakapas Gallery; New York, New York
1982 Sacramento Street Gallery; Cambridge, Massachu-
setts
1988 Gallery on the Green; Lexington, Massachusetts (with
subsequent solo exhibitions in 1990 and 1992)Group Exhibitions
1929 Film und Foto: Internationale Ausstellung des
Deutschen Werkbundes, Ausstellungshallen und Ko ̈nig-
baulichtspiele; Stuttgart, Germany (traveled throughout
Germany for two years)
1930 Kunstblatt; Reckendorfhaus, Berlin, Germany
1931 Bauhaus Exhibition; Harvard Society for Contempor-
ary Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1931 Juryfreie Sonderausstellung; Berlin, Germany
1931 T. Lux Feininger and Clemens Ro ̈seler; Bauhaus, Des-
sau, Germany
1932 Ferdinand Mo ̈ller Gallery; Berlin, Germany
1933 Carnegie International; Carnegie Museum of Art;
Pittsburgh, Pensylvania (included 1933–1936, 1939,
1943, 1946–49)
1940 T. Lux Feininger and Ben Shahn; Julien Levy Gallery;
New York, New York
1943 American Realists and Magic Realists; Museum of
Modern Art; New York, New York
1951 Whitney Museum Annual; Whitney Museum of Amer-
ican Art; New York, New York
1951 Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art;
Brooklyn Museum; New York, New York
1954 Four American Painters; Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Boston, Massachusetts
1954 Reality and Fantasy; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis,
Minnesota
1956 Feininger Family; Mint Museum of Art; Charlotte,
North Carolina
1964 Annual Exhibition; Westport Art Group; Wesport,
Massachusetts (participates annually 1964–1995)
1967 Feininger Family—three generations; Cambridge Art
Association; Cambridge, Massachusetts and traveling to
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
1979 Film und Foto; Stuttgart, Germany (50th Anniversary
recreation of original 1929 exhibition)Selected Works
Bauhaus Jazz Band, 1927
Sport am Bauhaus(Sport at the Bauhaus, alternatively titled
Jump over the Bauhaus), c. 1927
Clemens Ro ̈seler, c. 1928
Stabetanz (Dance of the Staves, alternatively titledBlack-
White), 1928
Mask for the Bauhaus Theater, c. 1928
Das Flache Dach (The Flat Roof), 1928–1929
Self-Portrait as Chaplin, c. 1929FEININGER, T. LUX