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ID: 500031430
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500031430

 

Record Type: Person
Feininger, Andreas (American photographer, 1906-1999)

Note: Born 27 December 1906. From 1922 to 1925, Feininger studied cabinet making under Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus school in Weimar, Germany. From 1925 to 1927, Feininger attended the Bauschule (technical school) at Weimar, Germany. From 1927 to 1928, Feininger attended the Staatliche Bauschule in Zerbst, Germany. He graduated in architecture and structural engineering and also took up photography. From 1929 to 1931, Feininger worked as an architect in Dessau and Hamburg, Germany. In 1932, Feininger worked as an assistant architect at the Office of Le Corbusier in Paris, France. In 1933, Feininger moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he operated an architectural and industrial photography studio. In 1939, Feininger moved to New York City, New York, where he worked as a freelance photojournalist for the Black Star Photo Agency until 1941. From 1941 to 1942, Feininger worked as a war correspondent and photographer for the United States Office of War Information. From 1943 to 1962, Feininger was a staff photographer for Life magazine. From 1962, Feininger has worked as a freelance photographer in New York City, New York, and in Connecticut.

Names:
Feininger, Andreas (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Feininger, Andreas (Dutch-P,NA)
Andreas Feininger (V,display)
Feininger, Andreas B. L. (V)
Feininger, Andreas Bernhard Lyonel (V)
פיינינגר, אנדריאס (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
Feiniger, Andreas (U)
Feiniger, Andreas Bernhad Lyonel (U)

Nationalities:
French (preferred)
American
German

Roles:
artist (preferred)
photographer
architect

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)
Died:  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1922 - 9999

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
child of ....  Feininger, Lyonel  
..............  (German painter, illustrator, and teacher, 1871-1956, active in Germany and America) [500115308]
sibling of ....  Feininger, T. Lux  
..................  (American painter and photographer, 1910-2011, born in Germany) [500021971]
student of ....  Gropius, Walter  from 1922 to 1925
..................  (German American architect, teacher, and industrial designer, 1883-1969) [500028112]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Feininger, Andreas (I)

Biographies:
(American photographer, 1906-1999) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American photographer, b.1906) ..... [BHA]
(American architect and photographer; born Paris American architect and photographer; born Paris (France), 1906; died February 1999) ..... [CCA]
(American (b. France), 1906 -) ..... [JPGM]
(American photographer, born 1906) ..... [AVERY]
(artist, 1906-1999) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born France. 1906-1999) ..... [MoMA]
(French photographer, 1906-1999) ..... [IMJ]
(German photographer, 1906-1999) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
פיינינגר, אנדריאס ........ [IMJ]
..................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Andreas Feininger ........ [CCA, GRISC, MoMA]
....................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Feiniger, Andreas ........ [RKD]
....................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 127022
Feiniger, Andreas Bernhad Lyonel ........ [RKD]
................................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 127022
Feininger, Andreas ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred]
......................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
......................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
......................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
......................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79095250
......................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
......................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 127022
Feininger, Andreas Bernhard Lyonel ........ [CCA, JPGM Preferred]
....................................................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Feininger, Andreas B. L. ........ [CCA]
................................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, IMJ, JPGM, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  "Andreas Feininger: Early Work." The Archive: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, no. 17 (March 1983): 5-14.
....................  Auer Index: Photographers Encyclopedia International. Hermance, Switzerland: Éditions Camera Obscura, 1992.
....................  Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n79095250
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n79095250
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  MoMA, Library Catalog (1976)
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
....................  Parry, Photography Index (1979)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 127022
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q497186
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, CCA, VP]
.......... Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
.......... Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
.......... Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
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