Andreas Feininger — International Center of Photography
Citation
International Center of Photography. “Andreas Feininger.” Constituent page in the ICP archive-browse index. Accessed 2026-05-09. https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/andreas-feininger
Relevance
Tier-1 institutional archive page for Andreas Feininger at ICP. Reference for his biographical anchor (1906–1999; born Paris; son of the painter Lyonel Feininger; educated at the Weimar Bauhaus; LIFE staff photographer). Andreas Feininger has two plates in The Family of Man per strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv (2026-05-09): photo-0316 (Section 25 Relationships, USA, LIFE, 140 x 102 cm — one of the largest plates in this portion of the checklist) and photo-0332 (Section 26 Learning, USA, LIFE, 20 x 20 cm).
Key excerpts / pages
Biographical dates and nationality (rendered cleanly in the right-hand panel of the page, fetched 2026-05-09):
- “1906 - 1999”
Biographical paragraph (verbatim from the fetched HTML, 2026-05-09):
- “Feininger was a pioneer both visually and technically. Born in Paris, son of the painter Lyonel Feininger, Andreas was educated in German public schools and at the Weimar Bauhaus. His interest in photography developed while he was studying architecture, and he worked as both architect and photographer in Germany for four years, until political circumstances made it impossible. He moved to Paris, where he worked in Le Corbusier[’s] studio…”
- “Feininger moved to New York, where he was a freelance photographer for the Black Star Agency and then for the U.S. Office of War Information. After working on a retainer basis, he was a staff photographer at [LIFE]…”
- “Feininger was renowned as a teacher via his publications that combine practical experience with clarity of presentation. Feininger received numerous awards…”
Notes
- Perspective: institutional / archival.
- The ICP page gives year-only resolution (1906 / 1999). The December 27, 1906 / February 18, 1999 day-month tokens carry pointer status from src-wikipedia-andreas-feininger-pointer and are independently corroborated at Tier 3 by Britannica (src-britannica-andreas-feininger).
- The page does NOT mention The Family of Man (verified by string-search 2026-05-09 against the fetched HTML — 0 occurrences). The connection is made via the MoMA Master Checklist (src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist, in repo) at the plate level. Both Feininger plates are credited as “LIFE / American” in the checklist — the post-1939 emigration framing in scholarly sources.
- Verified against fetched source on 2026-05-09 via
curl -fsSL https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/andreas-feininger(HTTP 200, 54,334 bytes).