The Green Bridge (Die Grüne Brücke)

Lyonel Feininger, born in New York to an immigrant German family, moved to Germany at age 16 to study music but soon turned to art. He experimented with graphic and with new styles. Despite his contemporary artistic vocabulary, many of Feininger's pictures—his favorite subjects included medieval churches, old houses, and cobblestone streets—suggest a quaint, old world country of tiny, toylike villages. This conception of Germany is that of an immigrant, raised on romantic images of a distant, unchanging homeland.