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Lyonel Feininger

♂  American, 1871–1956

Lyonel Feininger has been in 64 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1929 and 1990.

64 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Paintings by 19 Living Americans

12 December 1929 to 12 January 1930

Lyonel Feininger, John Marin, Edward Hopper and Charles Demuth, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: Lachaise Torso; Prints

11 July to 13 September 1934

Paul Klee, Paul Cézanne, André Derain and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art

2 March to 19 April 1936

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Three Centuries of American Art

24 May to 31 July 1938

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Bauhaus: 1919–1928

7 December 1938 to 30 January 1939

Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky, George Grosz and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

10 May to 30 September 1939

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstract Painting; Shapes of Things

15–28 July 1941

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes

16 September to 14 October 1941

Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Georges Rouault and Vasily Kandinsky, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture

26 August to 27 September 1942

Lyonel Feininger, Max Weber, William Zorach and Jules Pascin, among others, were involved.

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Romantic Painting in America

17 November 1943 to 6 February 1944

George Grosz, Lyonel Feininger, John Marin and Edward Hopper, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: 12 American Paintings

19 January to 26 March 1944

Lyonel Feininger, Joseph Stella, Eugene Berman and Alton Pickens, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Drawings

16 February to 10 May 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

24 May to 15 October 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Lyonel Feininger

24 October 1944 to 14 January 1945

Lyonel Feininger and Dorothy C. Miller were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

15 February to 18 March 1945

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture

20 June 1945 to 13 February 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition On Being a Cartoonist

15 October to 24 November 1946

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Rouault and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Paintings from the Museum Collection

23 December 1948 to 13 March 1949

Max Ernst, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Master Prints from the Museum Collection

10 May to 10 July 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture in Architecture

3 August to 2 October 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America

23 January to 25 March 1951

Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Works from the Museum Collection

12 August to 21 September 1952

Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque and Juan Gris, among others, were involved.

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American Prints of the 20th Century

8 September to 28 November 1954

William S. Lieberman, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

19 October 1954 to 6 February 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Paintings from Private Collections

31 May to 7 September 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Selections from the Art Lending Service

5–24 October 1955

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition German Art of the 20th Century

2 October to 1 December 1957

Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman, Max Ernst and Vasily Kandinsky, among others, were involved.

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50 Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss

23 April to 18 May 1958

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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American Acquisitions: Recent Additions of Prints to the Museum Collection

2 April to 31 May 1959

William S. Lieberman, Max Ernst, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Art Lending Service Retrospective

27 January to 20 March 1960

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 100 Drawings from the Museum Collection

11 October 1960 to 2 January 1961

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Intimate World of Lyonel Feininger

16 January to 10 March 1963

William S. Lieberman and Lyonel Feininger were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

6 August to 29 September 1963

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

Started 27 May 1964

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection

27 May 1964 to 23 March 1965

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 44 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

6 September 1965 to 23 January 1966

Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Odilon Redon and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings from the Museum Collection

31 October 1966 to 8 May 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

26 June to 22 November 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Lyonel Feininger: The Ruin by the Sea

1 August to 24 September 1967

William S. Lieberman, Lyonel Feininger and Eila Kokkinen were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Manhattan Observed

22 March to 1 July 1968

William S. Lieberman, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age

27 November 1968 to 9 February 1969

Paul Klee, George Grosz, Otto Dix and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

28 May to 1 September 1969

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

24 December 1969 to 1 March 1970

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Summer Show

6 July to 15 September 1971

Henri Matisse, Jasper Johns, Vasily Kandinsky and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Prints for Collectors

26 June to 15 September 1972

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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European Drawings from the Collection

27 June to 10 October 1972

Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Marc Chagall and Paul Cézanne, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Published in Germany, 1923

12 October 1973 to 2 February 1974

Paul Klee, Jean (Hans) Arp, Vasily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France

13 June to 8 September 1974

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition German Drawing: The Expressionists

30 August to 10 November 1974

Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman, Vasily Kandinsky and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Points of View

7 March to 8 June 1975

Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Odilon Redon and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings: Recent Gifts

5 September to 11 November 1975

Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, William S. Lieberman and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Cubism and Its Affinities

9 February to 9 May 1976

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Prints from the Collection

14 May to 8 August 1976

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America

20 August to 14 November 1976

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection

28 April to 4 July 1978

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Views over America

4 June to 30 July 1979

Claes Oldenburg, Lyonel Feininger, John Marin and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

3 March to 15 May 1983

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art

26 October 1983 to 3 January 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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The Expressionist Idiom

6 May to 18 December 1985

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawing in Austria and Germany

26 May to 29 October 1985

Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Jean (Hans) Arp and Vasily Kandinsky, among others, were involved.

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The Cubist Imprint

18 August to 7 November 1989

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Prints: Proofs and Variants

16 November 1989 to 13 March 1990

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.