Andreas Feininger (27 de diciembre de 1906 - 18 de febrero de 1999), fotógrafo norteamericano de origen alemán, que fue alumno y profesor de la prestigiosa Escuela de la Bauhaus de la Alemania de entreguerras. Su padre era Lyonel Feininger, uno de los profesores de dicha escuela y pintor vanguardista relacionado con el expresionismo.
Criado y educado en Europa, donde estudió en la Bauhaus de Weimar y en la escuela de arquitectura de Zerbst, comenzó a trabajar como arquitecto antes de dedicarse a la fotografía. En 1930 hizo sus primeras publicaciones fotográficas y en 1932 se trasladó a París donde estuvo trabajando con el arquitecto suizo Le Corbusier. Después inició un negocio de fotografía industrial y de arquitectura en Estocolmo, pero con la ascensión de Hitler al poder y la extensión de la guerra por Europa emigró a Estados Unidos en 1939, donde trabajó para la revista Life y produjo sus primeras imágenes exitosas, en ese momento centradas en la vida urbana de Nueva York.
En el año 1998, un año antes de su muerte, recibió el Premio de cultura de la asociación alemana de fotografía, uno de los más importantes de Alemania y que han recibido otros fotógrafos internacionales como Man Ray o Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger (27 December 1906 - 18 February 1999) was a German 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.
Feininger was born in Paris, France, to 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, to the United States in 1848.
Feininger grew up and was educated as an architect in Germany, where his father painted and taught at Staatliches Bauhaus. In 1936, he gave up architecture itself, moved to Sweden, and focused on photography. In advance of World War II, in 1939, Feininger immigrated to the U.S. where he established himself as a freelance photographer and in 1943 joined the staff of Life magazine, an association that lasted until 1962.
Feininger became famous for his photographs of New York. Science and nature, as seen in bones, shells, plants and minerals, were other frequent subjects, but rarely did he photograph people or make portraits. Feininger wrote comprehensive manuals about photography, of which the best known is The Complete Photographer. In the introduction to one of Feininger's books of photographs, Ralph Hattersley described him as "one of the great architects who helped create photography as we know it today." In 1966, the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) awarded Feininger its highest distinction, the Robert Leavitt Award. In 1991, the International Center of Photography awarded Feininger the Infinity Lifetime Achievement Award.
Today, Feininger's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Center for Creative Photography, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
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