Fodor's Expert Review Lyonel Feininger Gallery

Quedlinburg hosts the largest and most comprehensive collection of work of the German-American artist Lyonel Feininger, although Feininger never set foot in the city. Feiniger came to Germany to study and eventually teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar and in Dessau. As an exponent of the modern, the Nazis declared his work "decadent" and encouraged Feininger to leave in 1937. Before leaving, Feininger entrusted his friend and fellow artist Herman Klumpp with a large collection of his engravings, lithographs, etchings, and paintings. Klumpp hid the collection from the Nazis and the East German authorities, showing the works in his apartment until the gallery opened in 1986. This sophisticated, modern gallery is placed behind half-timber houses so as not to affect the town's medieval feel.