T. Lux Feininger: Modern Romanticism

This lavishly illustrated volume provides a multifaceted new approach to the astonishing work of T. Lux Feininger, from aquatic worlds to the cosmos of animal and plant life all the way to geometric abstraction.

The play of light and shadow, visionary images, and vibrant colors shaped the work of T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011). The son of the famed Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger studied at the Bauhaus himself and later worked in America. Over the course of nine decades, his consistently superb output was shaped by romantic ideals of primordial inspiration.

In this volume, paintings and drawings, photographs, set designs, and commercial graphic works offer a comprehensive view of the artist and an expression of modern romanticism, an artistic oeuvre full of dream worlds and longing, wit and imagination.

Katrin Arrieta has been in the development team of the Ahrenshoop Art Museum since 2006 and artistic director, curator, and acting director since September 2024. Thomas Bauer-Friedrich has been director of the Moritzburg Art Museum in Halle (Saale) since 2014 and director of art museums at the Cultural Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt since 2020.