Feininger's cityscapes

It's not that I don't like the countryside.  While everybody's got away to their cottages for the long weekend,  I'd rather stay in the city, where I really do belong.  German-American painter Lyonel Feininger also belonged to the city.  He was born and grew up in New York City and has lived and worked in Berlin for long periods of time.  This Bauhaus master's cityscape paintings capture light in the most distinctive cubist way.

Feininger at Pinakothek der Moderne, München 2010:

Feininger at MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Arts), 2010:

Feininger at Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis 2010:

Feininger at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2011:

Ubiquitous circles

Toronto Public Library Bloor Gladstone Branch:

Heathrow Airport Terminal 5, London:

Hauptbahnhof, Duesseldorf:

Michael Graves' new wing to the MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Arts):

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, New York:

More circular cities ... 40 years ago, and older

Coincidentally, Frank Stella's Tahkt-i-Sulayman Variation II from his Protractor series some 40 years ago was named after an ancient urban hub - an archeological site in Iran - although, in Stella's own words, his painting is "based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there; it really is an object."  I saw the painting at the MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Arts) in 2010.