Andreas Feininger
Plates contributed
The 2 plates attributed to Andreas Feininger in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0316 | USA | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0332 | USA | Play, learning, and education | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Two plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-09): photo-0316 (Section 25 Relationships, USA, LIFE / American, 140 x 102 cm — one of the largest plates in this portion of the checklist) and photo-0332 (Section 26 Learning, USA, LIFE / American, 20 x 20 cm). Both credited ‘LIFE / American’ in the MoMA Master Checklist (post-emigration framing). Born 1906; died 1999 per src-icp-andreas-feininger-archive (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09: ‘1906 - 1999’). The December 27, 1906 / February 18, 1999 day-month tokens, the Paris birthplace, and the New York deathplace are independently corroborated at Tier 3 by src-britannica-andreas-feininger (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09: ‘born December 27, 1906, Paris, France’ / ‘died February 18, 1999, New York, New York, U.S. (aged 92)’) and src-wikipedia-andreas-feininger-pointer (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09: ‘Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) was an American photographer and writer on photographic technique’). Two-source agreement promotes the day-month tokens above pointer-only status. NATIONALITY: src-icp-andreas-feininger-archive does not print a nationality string in the right-hand panel; src-britannica-andreas-feininger (‘an American photographer and writer’), src-wikipedia-andreas-feininger-pointer (‘American photographers’ categorical metadata), and the MoMA Master Checklist (which credits both his FoM plates as ‘LIFE / American’) all converge on ‘American’ — the post-1939 emigration framing. The Paris birthplace and Lyonel Feininger paternal heritage record him as French-born of an American expatriate Bauhaus painter; the canonical ‘American’ form is preserved here. Bauhaus-Weimar education verbatim per src-icp-andreas-feininger-archive (‘Andreas was educated in German public schools and at the Weimar Bauhaus’) and src-britannica-andreas-feininger (‘he studied cabinetmaking and architecture at the Bauhaus, the innovative design school in Weimar, Germany’). Le Corbusier-studio period in Paris and the Black Star Agency / OWI / LIFE arc verbatim per src-icp-andreas-feininger-archive. None of the three biographical sources fetched in this round mentions FoM by name on Feininger’s page (verified by string-search 2026-05-09); the connection is anchored at the plate level via src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist.
External biography
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/andreas-feininger
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