Lyonel Feininger
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Lyonel Feininger was a German-American painter, printmaker, and caricaturist best known for his architectonic, cubist-influenced Expressionist works and his association with the Bauhaus.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lyonel Feininger canonical | 17 |
| Feininger | 3 |
| Theodore Lux Feininger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T558231 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Lyonel Feininger Context triple: [Expressionism, notableProponent, Lyonel Feininger]
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the Die Brücke group, and a leading figure in early 20th-century Expressionist art.
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Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the influential Die Brücke group, and a key figure in the development of early 20th-century Expressionist art.
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Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American social realist artist and photographer known for his politically engaged murals, paintings, and documentary photographs of working-class life during the Great Depression.
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a pioneering German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the artists’ group Die Brücke and a central figure in the development of Expressionism in the early 20th century.
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E.
Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann was a German painter and printmaker known for his powerful, often dark figurative works that bridged Expressionism and New Objectivity in early 20th-century art.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Lyonel Feininger Target entity description: Lyonel Feininger was a German-American painter, printmaker, and caricaturist best known for his architectonic, cubist-influenced Expressionist works and his association with the Bauhaus.
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A.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the Die Brücke group, and a leading figure in early 20th-century Expressionist art.
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B.
Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the influential Die Brücke group, and a key figure in the development of early 20th-century Expressionist art.
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C.
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American social realist artist and photographer known for his politically engaged murals, paintings, and documentary photographs of working-class life during the Great Depression.
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D.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a pioneering German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the artists’ group Die Brücke and a central figure in the development of Expressionism in the early 20th century.
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E.
Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann was a German painter and printmaker known for his powerful, often dark figurative works that bridged Expressionism and New Objectivity in early 20th-century art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bauhaus teacher
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Expressionist artist ⓘ caricaturist ⓘ painter ⓘ person ⓘ printmaker ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1871-07-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
New York City
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| child |
Andreas Feininger
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Laurence Feininger ⓘ Lyonel Feininger self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Theodore Lux Feininger
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| citizenship |
German Empire
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| deathDate | 1956-01-13 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
New York City
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| employer | Bauhaus ⓘ |
| familyName |
Lyonel Feininger
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Feininger
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| field |
painting
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printmaking ⓘ |
| genre |
architectural painting
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cityscapes ⓘ seascapes ⓘ |
| givenName | Lyonel ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Cubism
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Expressionism ⓘ
surface form:
German Expressionism
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| knownFor |
Bauhaus
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surface form:
Bauhaus association
architectonic compositions ⓘ cubist-influenced Expressionist works ⓘ |
| movement |
Cubism
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Expressionism ⓘ Modernism ⓘ |
| name | Lyonel Feininger self-link ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
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German ⓘ |
| notableActivity | teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cathedral (Bauhaus manifesto woodcut)
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Church of the Minorites II ⓘ Gelmeroda series ⓘ |
| occupation |
caricaturist
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cartoonist ⓘ painter ⓘ printmaker ⓘ |
| spouse |
Julia Berg
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Julia Feininger ⓘ |
| style | architectonic abstraction ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Germany
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Lyonel Feininger Description of subject: Lyonel Feininger was a German-American painter, printmaker, and caricaturist best known for his architectonic, cubist-influenced Expressionist works and his association with the Bauhaus.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.