Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928-1939

The J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, USA) holds the first comprehensive overview of photographs by one of the most important artists of the 20th century: Lyonel Feininger.

Painter, printmaker, and draftsman, Feininger (1871-1956) was one of the first masters appointed to teach at the Bauhaus, the innovative school for art, design, and architecture established by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, in 1919. Like many other figures at the Bauhaus, Feininger turned to photography as a tool for visual exploration. Beginning in 1928 and for the next decade, he used the camera to explore transparency, reflection, night imagery, and the effects of light and shadow.

This exhibition offers the first opportunity to consider the origins of Feininger's photographic work at the Bauhaus and its development over a decade, expanding our understanding both of him as an artist and of the history of Modernist photography. A selection of photographs made by other Bauhaus masters and students, drawn from the J. Paul Getty Museum's permanent collection, complements Feininger's work and provides a context to better appreciate his engagement with the medium.

Date: until March 11.
Location: J. Paul Getty Museum. 1200 Getty Center Drive. Los Angeles, California 90049. USA.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 5.30pm.