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| Andreas Feininger |
Andreas Feininger, born in 1906 as the oldest son of the famous painter Lyonel Feininger, belongs to a generation of artists who, in the period after the First World War discovered photography as an artistic medium in itself and developed new photographic perspectives. Andreas Feininger's work is characterised by two main topics: city views and motifs of nature. Architecture and the life in his chosen home of New York were to fascinate him for decades. His pictures capture the skyline of Manhattan, the streets, the skyscrapers, the bridges and overhead railways in atmospherically intense pictures. He also dedicated himself to the study of nature. His minutely detailed photographs of insects, flowers, shells, wood and stones, lend a sculptural character to the forms found in nature. |
In June 1998, Andreas Feininger was awarded the culture prize of the German Society of Photography. He died in New York on 18th February, 1999 at the age of 92. The exhibition contains 270 b/w photographs, predominantly vintage prints, and gives a general idea of Andreas Feininger's complete work such as city views, architecture and landscape impressions, motifs of nature and portraits as well as photographic reports of his period as LIFE-photo-journalist. | |||
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Catalog |
The exhibition
catalog
is available in English and German at a price of EUR 24.00.
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