Source
Andreas Feininger — Encyclopædia Britannica
Citation
Britannica Editors. “Andreas Feininger.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed 2026-05-09. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andreas-Feininger
Tier justification
Tier 3: per CREDIBILITY.md Tier 3 list, “Encyclopedia entries with named authors and visible references (Grove Art, Encyclopedia Britannica).” Used here as a Tier-3 corroboration of Feininger’s day-month birth and death tokens, and place tokens, that the Tier-1 ICP page does not state at this granularity. Year-level dates remain anchored at Tier 1 via src-icp-andreas-feininger-archive.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim quotations from the page fetched 2026-05-09:
- Title-and-lead opening: “Andreas Feininger was an American photographer and writer on photographic technique, noted for his photos of nature and cityscapes. The eldest son of the painter Lyonel Feininger, he studied cabinetmaking and architecture at the Bauhaus, the innovative design school in Weimar, Germany.”
- Birth registry (rendered as a stable Britannica
<dd>element): “born December 27, 1906, [Paris], [France]” - Death registry (rendered as a stable Britannica
<dd>element): “died February 18, 1999, [New York], [New York], U.S. (aged 92)”
Page metadata: subject keywords include “American photographer”.
Notes
- Perspective: editorial reference / encyclopedia.
- The Britannica entry corroborates the December 27, 1906 / February 18, 1999 day-month tokens that Wikipedia (src-wikipedia-andreas-feininger-pointer) also records — both at narrative paragraph level rather than birth/death-only registry. The two-source agreement promotes these tokens above pointer status.
- Britannica frames Feininger as “American” (post-1939 emigration framing), consistent with the MoMA Master Checklist’s “American” credit on his two FoM plates. Wikipedia’s lead also opens “American photographer and writer (1906–1999)” — see src-wikipedia-andreas-feininger-pointer.
- The page does NOT mention The Family of Man (verified 2026-05-09 by string-search). The connection is at the plate level via the MoMA Master Checklist.
- Verified against fetched source on 2026-05-09 via
curl -fsSL https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andreas-Feininger(HTTP 200, 68,799 bytes).