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Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was a German-American Expressionist painter who became the first faculty appointment to the Bauhaus by Walter Gropius after its founding in 1919. He designed the cover for the 1919 Bauhaus manifesto, a woodblock print, and taught at the Bauhaus for several years. He was also a very successful comic strip artist and cartoonist for 20 years before his career as a fine artist began at age 36, as well as a composer and pianist. He was a member of several important artist movements and groups including the Berliner Sezession and the German Expressionist groups Die Brücke("The Bridge"), the Novembergruppe, Gruppe 1919, the Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider") and Die Blaue Vier ("The Blue Four").