In 1911 he went to Paris, where he became acquainted with the works of the French Cubists. Cubism had a marked influence on him, but Feininger has developed his own version of Cubism, I want to say, a mixture of cubism with Rayonism - whom he had known, of course, could not. He refused anecdotal elements that previously prevailed in his paintings. His new work - urban landscapes with an ever-present churches and bell towers - are almost abstract. He also refused to and from the perspectives, recreating it with destrukturatsii forms. His landscapes are geometric (he said that with five years of drawing vertical architecture of New York, which greatly impressed him, this vertikalizm traced throughout his work).
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