The Photojournalist, showing the photojournalistDennis Stock, may be Feininger's best-known photograph; he took it forLife in 1951.View alongUS 40 in Mount Vernon Canyon, Colorado, 1942, a photograph taken when Feininger was an employee of theOffice of War Information (OWI)Creede, Colorado in 1942, another OWI photograph by Feininger
Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger (December 27, 1906 – February 18, 1999) was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes ofManhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects.
Feininger was born inParis, France, the eldest son of Julia Berg, a German Jew, and the American painter and art educatorLyonel Feininger (1871-1956). His paternal grandparents were the German violinistKarl Feininger (1844-1922) and the American singer Elizabeth Feininger (née Lutz), who was also of German descent. His younger brother was the painter and photographerT. Lux Feininger (1910-2011).[1]
In 1908 the Feininger family moved toBerlin, and in 1919 toWeimar, where Lyonel Feininger took up the post of Master of the Printing Workshop at the newly formedBauhaus art school.[2]
Andreas left school at 16, in 1922, to study at the Bauhaus; he graduated as a cabinetmaker in April 1925. Afterwards he studied architecture, initially at theStaatliche Bauschule Weimar (State Architectural College, Weimar) and later at theStaatliche Bauschule Zerbst. (Zerbst is a city in the German state ofSaxony-Anhalt, about 20 km fromDessau, where the Bauhaus moved to in 1926.) The Feininger family moved to Dessau with the Bauhaus. In addition to continuing his architectural studies in Zerbst, Andreas developed an interest in photography and was given guidance by neighbour and Bauhaus teacherLászló Moholy-Nagy.[3]
In 1936, he gave up architecture and moved to Sweden, where he focused on photography. In advance ofWorld War II, in 1939, Feininger immigrated to the U.S., where he established himself as a freelance photographer. In 1943, he joined the staff ofLife magazine, an association that lasted until 1962.[4]
Feininger became famous for his photographs of New York. Other frequent subjects among his works were science and nature, as seen in bones, shells, plants, and minerals in the images of which he often stressed their structure. Rarely did he photograph people or make portraits.
Feininger wrote comprehensive manuals about photography, of which the best known isThe Complete Photographer. In the introduction to one of Feininger's books of photographs,Ralph Hattersley, the editor of the photography journalInfinity, described him as "one of the great architects who helped create photography as we know it today." In 1966, theAmerican Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) awarded Feininger its highest distinction, the Robert Leavitt Award. In 1991, theInternational Center of Photography awarded Feininger the Infinity Lifetime Achievement Award.
Feininger’s work has been exhibited at the MuseuFundación Juan March, Palma (Andreas Feininger (1906-1999),[13] 16 January - 3 May 2008, traveled toMuseo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca (23 May - 31 August 2008));Zeppelin Museum (Andreas Feininger. That's Photography,[14] 24 September 2010 - 9 January 2011, andAndreas Feininger. Industrial photography in America,[15] 23 November 2012 - 24 February 2013); theSanta Barbara Museum of Art (Lyonel Feininger/Andreas Feininger: The Modern Sea,[16]The Modern City, 29 January - 18 June 2023); and theBröhan Museum (Andreas Feininger. New York In The Forties,[17] 3 March - 30 July 2023).
Il libro della fotografia a colori. Milan: Garzanti, 1962. Italian translation. Also later editions.
The Creative Photographer. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1955. And later editions.
Der Schlüssel zur Fotografie von Heute. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1958. German translation.
Skapande fotografering. Stockholm: Bonnier, 1958. Swedish translation.
Fotograful creator. Bucharest: Editura Meridiane, 1967. Romanian translation.
Total Picture Control: A Personal Approach to Photography. New York: Crown, 1961. New York: Amphoto, 1970.
Die hohe Schule der Fotografie. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1961. And later editions.
Andreas Feiningers fotoskole. Copenhagen: Grafisk Forlag, 1962. Danish translation.
De hogere school der fotografie. Amsterdam: De Bussey, 1963. Dutch translation.
Vysoká škola fotografie. Prague: Orbis, 1968. Czech translation.
A Manual of Advanced Photography. London: Thames & Hudson, 1962. Revised edition, London: Thames & Hudson, 1970.
Voir: Précis sur la technique et l'art d'exceller en photographie. Lausanne: Edita, 1961.
Arte y técnica en fotografía: Cómo perfeccionar sus fotos. Madrid: Mediterráneo, 1968.
Cómo hacer buenas fotografías: Un curso completo sobre la mecánica, la técnica y las aplicaciones de la fotografía. Madrid: Mediterráneo, 1968. Madrid: Mediterráneo, 1980.ISBN8471561158.
The Complete Photographer. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965. London: Thames & Hudson, 1965. And later editions.
Die neue Foto-Lehre. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1965.
La nuova tecnica della fotografia. Milan: Garzanti, 1966. Italian translation.
Fotograferen van A–Z: Een nieuw handboek der fotografie. Amsterdam: De Bussy, 1965.
Basic Color Photography. 1969.
The Color Photo Book. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
Kleurenfotografie van A–Z. Amsterdam: De Bussy, 1969. Dutch translation.
The Complete Colour Photographer. Thames & Hudson, 1969.
Farbfotolehre. Neu bearbeitete Ausgabe des berühmten Standardwerkes. Munich: Heyne, 1969.ISBN3453411609.
Stockholm. Stockholm: A. Bonnier, 1936. In Swedish and English.
Hedenhös och medeltid. Forna dagars Sverige. Copenhagen, 1941. By Feininger and Gustaf Näsström.
Vasatid och karolinsk tid. Forna dagars Sverige. Copenhagen, 1941. By Feininger and Gustaf Näsström.
Frihetstid och Gustaviansk tid. Forna dagars Sverige. Copenhagen, 1941. By Feininger and Gustaf Näsström.
New York. Chicago:Ziff-Davis, 1945. Introduction byJohn Erskine, text by Jacquelyn Judge.
The Face of New York: The City as It Was and as It Is. New York: Crown, 1954. Text by Susan E. Lyman.
Changing America: The Land as It Was and How Man Has Changed It. New York: Crown, 1955. Text by Patricia Dyett.
The Anatomy of Nature: How Function Shapes the Form and Design of Animate and Inanimate Structures throughout the Universe. New York: Crown, 1956. London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1956. New York: Dover, 1979.
Vorm en functie in de natuur: 170 foto's. Delft: W. Gaade, 1956. Dutch translation.
Das Antlitz der Natur. Munich: Knaur, 1957. Zurich: Buchclub Ex Libris, 1957. German translation.
Anatomía de la naturaleza: De cómo la función crea la forma en las estructuras animadas e inanimadas de entero universo. Barcelona: Jano, 1962. Spanish translation.
Frauen und Göttinnen von der Steinzeit bis zu Picasso. Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1960. Text by J. Bon.
Maids, Madonnas, and Witches: Women in Sculpture from Prehistoric Times to Picasso. New York:Abrams, 1961. English translation. Introduction byHenry Miller.
The Image of Woman: Women in Sculpture from Pre-historic Times to the Present Day. London:Thames & Hudson, 1961. English translation. Introduction by Henry Miller.
Andreas Feininger fotografiert Steine. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1960. About architecture; with an introduction by Kasimir Edschmid.
Man and Stone: A Journey into the Past. New York: Crown, 1961. English translation.
Andreas Feininger fotografeert steen. Haarlem: Gottmer, 1962. Dutch translation.
Stone and Man: A Photographic Exploration. New York: Dover, 1979.
New York. New York: Crown, 1964; New York:Viking, 1964. London: Thames & Hudson, 1964. Text byKate Simon.
New York. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1964. German translation.
Lyonel Feininger: City at the Edge of the World. New York:Praeger, 1965. Text byT. Lux Feininger.
Lyonel Feininger. Die Stadt am Ende der Welt. Munich: Rütten & Loening, 1965. German translation.
Forms of Nature and Life. New York: Viking Press, 1966.
Die Sprache der Natur. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1966. German translation.
Form in Nature and Life. London: Thames & Hudson, 1966.
Trees. New York: Viking Press, 1968. London: Thames & Hudson, 1968. Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin, 1978.ISBN0-14-004747-6. New York: Viking Press, 1978.ISBN0670729434. New York: Rizzoli, 1991.ISBN0847813258.
Wunderbare Welt der Bäume und Wälder. Vienna: Econ, 1968. German translation.
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