Feininger 1931 framed fine offset print.   

Lyonel Feininger was born to German-American violinist and composer Karl Feininger and American singer Elizabeth Feininger in New York City. He traveled to Germany at the age of 16 in 1887 to study. In 1888, he moved to Berlin and studied at the Königliche Berlin under Ernst Hancke. He continued his studies at art schools in Berlin with Karl Schlabitz, and in Paris with sculptor Filippo Colarossi. He started as a caricaturist for several magazines including , Harper's Young People, Humoristische Blätter, Lustige Blätter, Das Narrenschiff, Berliner Tageblatt and Ulk.

Many critics have argued that Feininger's work was at its most mature around 1910 in works in which his power as an illustrator balanced his abstract side.