1871
Lyonel Feininger is born on the 17th of July in New York
1888
Attends the Royal Academy in Berlin
1892
Studies at the “Academie Colarossi” in Paris
1909
Member of the Berlin Secession
1919
Appointment to the “Bauhaus” in Weimar
1924
Formation of “Die Blaue Vier” (the Blue Four) in conjunction with Alexej von Jawlensky, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky
1937
Escape from the Nationals Socialists to New York. 400 of Feininger’s artworks were seized and defamed as “degenerate”
1947
President of the “Federation of American Painters and Sculptors”
1956
Lyonel Feininger dies on the 15th of January in New York