http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/90740/lyonel-feininger-barf-uuml-sserkirche-ii-church-of-the-minorites-ii-1926 ArtsConnectEd.org Art Collector Set: Lyonel Feininger, <i>Barf&uuml;sserkirche II (Church of the Minorites II)</i> (1926) http://www.artsconnected.org/images/favicon.png http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/90740/lyonel-feininger-barf-uuml-sserkirche-ii-church-of-the-minorites-ii-1926 16 16 http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/90740/lyonel-feininger-barf-uuml-sserkirche-ii-church-of-the-minorites-ii-1926 Sat, 01 Jun 2002 00:00:00 -0400 <table cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Title</td> <td><h3>Lyonel Feininger, <i>Barf&uuml;sserkirche II (Church of the Minorites II)</i> (1926)</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Author</td> <td><h3>Walker Art Center</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Date</td> <td><h3>2002</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label" style="padding-right:7px;">Institution</td> <td>Walker Art Center</td> </tr> </table><br/>An American artist of German descent, Lyonel Feininger studied music in Germany, then abandoned a promising career as a violinist to become an artist. Although he turned his concentration toward the visual arts, Feininger consistently created his work with a musician's sensitivity. Paintings, he once wrote, "have to sing, must enrapture, and must not stop at portraying an episode." <p>Although greatly influenced by the geometric aspects of Cubism, Feininger developed his own colorful and romantic version of this style. Conceptually, he wanted to achieve a spiritual synthesis of the natural and man-made world in his paintings by depicting such subjects as architecture and human forms as prismatically colored, interpenetrating planes. In <i>Barfüsserkirche II (Church of the Minorites II)</i>, Feininger created a pictorial communion of a church (<i>kirche</i>) and the German Franciscan monks (<i>Barfüsser</i>) who reside there by depicting a harmonious composition of repeated transparent colors, shapes, and lines.</p> http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/90740/lyonel-feininger-barf-uuml-sserkirche-ii-church-of-the-minorites-ii-1926 An American artist of German descent, Lyonel Feininger studied music in Germany, then abandoned a promising career as a violinist to become an artist. Although he turned his concentration toward the visual arts, Feininger consistently created his work with a musician's sensitivity. Paintings, he once wrote, "have to sing, must enrapture, and must not stop at portraying an episode." Although greatly influenced by the geometric aspects of Cubism, Feininger developed his own colorful and romantic version of this style. Conceptually, he wanted to achieve a spiritual synthesis of the natural and man-made world in his paintings by depicting such subjects as architecture and human forms as prismatically colored, interpenetrating planes. In Barfüsserkirche II (Church of the Minorites II), Feininger created a pictorial communion of a church (kirche) and the German Franciscan monks (Barfüsser) who reside there by depicting a harmonious composition of repeated transparent colors, shapes, and lines. " type="image/jpeg" />An American artist of German descent, Lyonel Feininger studied music in Germany, then abandoned a promising career as a violinist to become an artist. Although he turned his concentration toward the visual arts, Feininger consistently created his work with a musician's sensitivity. Paintings, he once wrote, "have to sing, must enrapture, and must not stop at portraying an episode." Although greatly influenced by the geometric aspects of Cubism, Feininger developed his own colorful and romantic version of this style. Conceptually, he wanted to achieve a spiritual synthesis of the natural and man-made world in his paintings by depicting such subjects as architecture and human forms as prismatically colored, interpenetrating planes. In Barfüsserkirche II (Church of the Minorites II), Feininger created a pictorial communion of a church (kirche) and the German Franciscan monks (Barfüsser) who reside there by depicting a harmonious composition of repeated transparent colors, shapes, and lines. " type="image/jpeg" />Copyright 2002 Walker Art CenterWalker Art Center