April 17, 2024
Huge Andreas Feininger 1906-1999 Signed x2 No Reserve
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Please email any questions. NOTE: WILL SHIP WITHOUT GLASS ONLY, TO PROTECT THE PRINT. QUALITY PRINT - Appraised at $3000 to $5000 Provenance: Private family Collection South Street Seaport, NYC, 194021 ¾ x 17 ¾ in. (55.2 x 45.1 cm).Signed in pencil on the verso; signed in ink on the overmat. Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger ( 27 December 1906 - 18 February 1999 ) was a French-born American photographer, and writer on photographic technique, noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and studies of the structure of natural objects. Biography Born in Paris, France, from an American family of German origin. His father, painter Lyonel Feininger , was born in New York City , in 1871. His great-grandfather emigrated from Durlach, Baden, in Germany, towards United States in 1848.Feininger grew up and was educated as an architect in Germany, w his father painted and taught at Bauhaus . In 1936, he gave up architecture itself, moved to Sweden, and focused on photography. In advance of WW II , in 1939, Feininger immigrated to the U.S. w he established himself as a freelance photographer and in 1943 joined the staff of Life magazine, an association that lasted until 1962. Feininger cover of Life magazine, 1940 Feininger became famous for his photographs of New York. Science and nature, as seen in bones, shells, plants and
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