Audiowalk "Lyonel Feininger"

© Feininger

As a one-hour audiovisual city tour, interested visitors can walk individually in the footsteps of the Bauhaus artist Lyonel Feininger in Halle and experience his perspectives on the eleven Halle paintings. The German-English audio walk is based on three cross-media modules: the audio tracks, the 32-page brochure and the nine Feininger stelae (the stele at the Moritzburg will be set up in future). In addition to the audio material, the WebApp shows the eleven paintings (created between 1928 and 1931), the photographs or sketches Feininger made in advance and today's views of the city. The steles mark the painter's historical perspectives along the touristic old town. Feininger's Halle paintings show several views of the Marktkirche, cathedral, Red Tower, Bölbergasse and Am Trödel (Schülershof).

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"Halle is the most delightful town!" This joyful exclamation was sent by the famous Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956) to his wife Julia in Dessau on May 21, 1929, just a few days after his arrival in Halle.

Alois J. Schardt, director of Halle's art museum in the Moritzburg, commissioned him to paint a view of the city on the Saale, which was intended as a gift for the Magdeburg High Council. With great enthusiasm for discovery, Feininger explored Halle's architectural structures with a sketchbook and camera and created a total of eleven paintings of Halle between 1929 and 1931, in addition to numerous photographs and drawings. Three of the eleven paintings are now on display in the permanent exhibition of the Moritzburg Art Museum in Halle (Saale).