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T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011), Hafeneinfahrt (Elbe Harbor), 1934, Oil on canvas, 21 x 26 in. (53.3 x 66 cm)

T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011)
Hafeneinfahrt (Entering Harbor), 1934
Oil on canvas
21 x 26 in. (53.3 x 66 cm)

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T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011), Mentone, 1976, Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 25 1/8 in. (46.4 x 63.8 cm), Signed lower left: T. Lux F., Inscribed on verso: T. Lux F. 1976 "Mentone"

T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011)
Mentone, 1976
Oil on canvas
18 1/4 x 25 1/8 in. (46.4 x 63.8 cm)
Signed lower left: T. Lux F.
Inscribed on verso: T. Lux F. 1976 "Mentone"

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T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011), Cubist Picture (Dedicated to Juan Gris), 1974, oil on board, 19 x 24 in. (48.3 x 61 cm), Signed lower right: T Lux F, Signed, dated, titled, and dedicated on verso: T Lux Feininger 1974 Cubist Picture (dedicated to Juan Gris)

T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011)
Cubist Picture (Dedicated to Juan Gris), 1974
Oil on board
19 x 24 in. (48.3 x 61 cm)
Signed lower right: T Lux F
Signed, dated, titled, and dedicated on verso: T Lux Feininger 1974 Cubist Picture (dedicated to Juan Gris)

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T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011), Composition Auf dem Suche nach dem Geistigen (Searching the Spiritual), 1983, Oil on board, 14 x 19 3/4 in. (35.6 x 50.2 cm), Signed lower right: T. LUX F., Signed and dated on verso: T. LUX F. 1983

T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011)
Composition Auf dem Suche nach dem Geistigen (Searching the Spiritual), 1983
Oil on board
14 x 19 3/4 in. (35.6 x 50.2 cm)
Signed lower right: T. LUX F.
Signed and dated on verso: T. LUX F. 1983

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T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011), Studio Scraps I, 1988, Oil on board, 14 1/8 x 27 5/8 in. (35.9 x 70.2 cm), Signed and dated lower right: T. Lux F., Signed, dated and titled on verso: 25th anniversary in this house MAY 23 1988 FIN OCT 94 / 'Studio Scraps I'

T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011)
Studio Scraps I, 1988
Oil on board
14 1/8 x 27 5/8 in. (35.9 x 70.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: T. Lux F.
Signed, dated and titled on verso: 25th anniversary in this house MAY 23 1988 FIN OCT 94 / 'Studio Scraps I'

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T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011), The Song the Syrens Sang, 1986, Oil on board, 17 5/16 x 25 7/8 in. (44 x 65.7 cm), Signed lower right: T.Lux F., Signed, dated, titled on verso: T. Lux F. 1986 The Song the Syrens Sang 1986

T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011)
The Song the Syrens Sang, 1986
Oil on board
17 5/16 x 25 7/8 in. (44 x 65.7 cm)
Signed lower right: T.Lux F.
Signed, dated, titled on verso: T. Lux F. 1986 The Song the Syrens Sang 1986

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T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011), Autumn St., 1967, Oil on canvas, 30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm), Signed on verso: LUX T. Lux F. 1967 "Autumn St" [fin. Dec. 1971]

T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011)
Autumn St., 1967
Oil on canvas
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
Signed on verso: LUX 
T. Lux F. 1967 "Autumn St"
[fin. Dec. 1971]

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About the Artist

T. Lux Feininger was born on June 11, 1910 in Berlin, the youngest son of Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). Together with his family he moved to Weimar in 1919, where his father had been appointed Master at the Bauhaus. Between 1926 and 1929, he studied under Josef Albers, Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Oskar Schlemmer at the Bauhaus in Dessau. Though initially a photographer, he turned to painting in 1929 and developed a pictorial language all his own. 

In 1936, the artist immigrated to the United States. In 1947 he had his first solo exhibition at the Julian Levy Gallery in New York, followed by successful teaching posts at Sarah Lawrence College (1950-52), Harvard University (1953-62), and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1962-75). T. Lux Feininger wrote of this experience: "The interrelationship between subject-matter and form has for me been the real fascination of painting from my early days on. Clarity regarding this traffic between sensuous and intellectual attitudes came to me by way of teaching on the adult level, and this again led me to explore formal geometrical relations for a while."

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