Audiowalk Lyonel Feininger

© Feininger

As a one-hour audiovisual city tour, interested visitors can individually walk 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 Feininger app with iBeacons (via Google Play, App Store), the 32-page brochure and the nine Feininger stelae (the stele at the Moritzburg will be installed in future). In addition to the audio material, the app shows the eleven paintings (created between 1928 and 1931), Feininger's photos or sketches made in advance, and today's views of the city. The steles mark the painter's historical perspectives along the tourist route through the old town. Feininger's Halle paintings show several views of the motifs Market Church, 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 21 May 1929, only 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 Saale city, which was intended as a gift for the Oberpräsidium in Magdeburg. With great joy of discovery, Feininger explored Halle's building structures with sketchbook and camera and created a total of eleven Halle paintings 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 Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale).