Due to political pressure the Bauhaus in Weimar is closed. Feininger’s acclaim in the United States continues to grow. In New York, Galka Scheyer organizes the first exhibition of the Blue Four.
1926
The Bauhaus relocates to Dessau and Feininger moves into one of the master’s houses. On his request he discontinues teaching but remains a master at the Bauhaus. Ten of his woodcuts are published by the Euphorion-Verlag.
1927
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, visits Feininger in Dessau. Exhibitions in Germany and the United States further establish his reputation.
1929
Represented with seven works in the exhibition “Paintings by Nineteen Living American” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The city of Halle commissions him to execute one oil painting of the town. He moves into a studio at the tower of the museum in the Moritzburg. In the next two years he will execute eleven paintings and numerous drawings and watercolors of Halle.
1931
Retrospective exhibitions are shown at Neue Kunst Fides in and subsequently at the Folkwang-Museum, Essen, and travels the Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
1933
Spends the summer in Deep, and the fall and winter in Berlin-Wannsee.
1934
Rents an apartment in Berlin-Siemensstadt.
1935
His work has been categorized as degenerate art by the Nazi regime. Alfred Neumeyer invites him to teach at Mills College in Oakland, California.
1936
Travels with Julia to New York and then to San Diego. Teaches during the summer at Mills College where his first one-person show in the United States is held. Travels back to Berlin in the fall via Hamburg and Stockholm.
1937
After more than 50 years he decides to leave Germany. On June 11 Feininger and his wife leave permanently for the USA. More than 400 works are confiscated by the Nazis. Twenty-two of them are displayed in the exhibition “Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art).” Teaches again a summer course at Mills College. Settles in New York. Designs murals for the Marine Transportation Building at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
1938
Moves to 235 East 22nd Street where he will live until his death. Designs murals for the Masterpieces of Art Building at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
1939
Paints his first painting after his arrival in the USA.
1940
Manhattan skyscrapers become a new theme in Feininger’s work. Spends this and the following summers in Falls Village, Connecticut.
1942
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, awards him a price for the painting Gelmeroda XIII, 1936, which is shown in the “Artists for Victory” exhibition.
1943
Solo-exhibition at Willard Gallery, New York. Awarded price by the Worcester Art Museum.
1944
Begin of his friendship with Mark Tobey. First major retrospective with Marsden Hartley at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1945
Teaches summer course at Black Mountain College in Ashville, North Carolina. Spends the fall and the summer of the following years in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
1947
Elected president of the Federation of American Painters and Sculptors.
1949
Spends the summer in Center Moriches, Long Island, and the fall in Falls Village and Boston. Laureate at the International Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. Exhibits together with Jacques Villon at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Spends the summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Designs murals for the ship SS Constitution.
1951
Spends the summer at Walter Gropius’ house in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
1953
Spends the summer in Josef Albers’ in New Haven, Connecticut.
1954
Mark Tobey visits him in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
1955
Elected member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Becomes honorary vice-president of the Federation of American Painters and Sculptors.
1956
Feininger dies on January 13 in his apartment in New York City.