Biography of andreas feininger

American photographer and writer (1906–1999)

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.

Biography of andreas feininger

Biography

Feininger was born in Paris, France, the eldest son of Julia Berg, a German Jew, and the American painter and art educator Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). His paternal grandparents were the German violinist Karl Feininger (1844–1922) and the American singer Elizabeth Feininger (née Lutz), who was also of German descent.

His younger brother was the painter and photographer T. Lux Feininger (1910–2011).^[1]

In 1908 the Feininger family moved to Berlin, and in 1919 to Weimar, where Lyonel Feininger took up the post of Master of the Printing Workshop at the newly formed Bauhaus art school.^[2]

Andreas left school at 16, in