Andreas Feininger - Andreas Feininger - Heliogravure uit 1937 gepubliceerd in AMG - France - Verkocht

Andreas Feininger

Heliogravure uit 1937

gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift AMG

op papier

in goede staat

afmetingen  20,0 x 28,0 cm

Wordt geleverd in een passepartout van museumkwaliteit formaat 30 x 40 cm.

in goede staat

 

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 of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects.

Feininger was born in Paris, France, to Julia Berg and Lyonel Feininger, an American of German origin. A painter, his father was born in New York City, in 1871. His great-grandfather emigrated from Durlach, Baden, in Germany, to the United States in 1848. His younger brother was the painter T. Lux Feininger(1910–2011), who began his professional career as a photographer.

Feininger grew up and was educated as an architect in Germany, where his father painted and taught, atStaatliches Bauhaus. In 1936, he gave up architecture and moved to Sweden, where he focused on photography. In advance of World War II, in 1939, Feininger immigrated to the U.S. where he established himself as a freelance photographer. In 1943 he joined the staff of Life magazine, an association that lasted until 1962.

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.

Today, Feininger's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Center for Creative Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York