fBorn and raised in New York, Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) moved at the age of sixteen to Germany, where he became one of the leading practitioners of German Expressionism and the Bauhaus. In the late 1930s, when the Nazi campaign against modern art forced him to flee back to New York after an absence of fifty years, his marriage of abstraction and recognizable imagery made him a beloved artist in the United States.Long acknowledged as a major figure of the Bauhaus, Feininger is renowned for his romantic, crystalline paintings of architecture and seascapes. Less well known are the whimsical aspects of his work: his pioneering Chicago Sunday Tribune comic strips; his figurative, Expressionist compositions; his photographs; and his miniature hand-carved wooden figures and buildings, known as ... Go to event
Modern & traditional Cambodian music performances celebrate opening of a special exhibit on Cambodian art. At Peralta Hacienda, Birthplace of Oakland.
An original Peralta House Museum of History and Community exhibit, this exhibit on Cambodians in Oakland, features multigenerational Cambodian refugees and their search for healing from the trauma of the Cambodian genocide through the recovery of music traditions that were nearly annihilated.
The exhibit will introduce visitors to Cambodian culture and the political upheaval that occurred there in the 1970s. The exhibit features traditional Cambodian artists living and practicing their arts in Oakland today. Through practicing these arts and passing down traditions, Cambodians are healing from the trauma inflicted on them during the geno ... 
