Harbor Mole
1913
Cubism
Oil on Canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
In ‘Harbor Mole’ Feininger draws on Cubist faceting of forms to evoke the power of wind and water with an image of a brutal coastline, Seascapes and harbourscapes are featured strongly across Feininger’s career.
Lyonel Feininger
Modern Art, Expressionism, Cubism, Der Blaue Reiter
Born: 17 July 1871, New York, USA
Nationality: German-American
Died: 13 January 1956, New York, USA
Feininger was a painter and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He is also known as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. His work, characterized by prismatically broken, overlapping forms in translucent colours with references to architecture and the se made him one of the most important artists of classical modernism
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