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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 characterized 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. He died in New York on 18th February, 1999 at the age of 92. Andreas Feininger has gone down in the annals of the history of photography as one of the best and most important photographers. // EXHIBITIONS That's Photography The exhibition contains 296 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. Amercia Yesterday 105 b/w photographs show a selection of typical images of the USA of the forties and fifties. New York in the Forties 73 b/w photographs of a fascinating city. Please direct all enquiries in writing by e-Mail or fax to us |