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Feininger, Andreas
(1906-1999)Gothic church portal (Domkirche Greifswald)

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Gothic church portal (Domkirche Greifswald). 1930s. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on Agfa-Brovira paper (negative print). 23,5 x 18 cm. Photographer's stamp and annotated by the photographer in pencil on the verso, with original card mount (traces of use), typed German text on mount; photographer's stamp on mount verso.

After leaving school at age 16 in 1922, Andreas Feininger enrolled at the Bauhaus, before he shifted his focus to architecture, studying first at the Staatliche Bauschule Weimar, and later at the Bauschule Zerbst. While in Zerbst, he developed a growing interest in photography, guided in part by Bauhaus teacher and neighbor László Moholy-Nagy. In 1936, Feininger abandoned architecture to pursue photography full-time, relocating to Sweden, and later immigrating to the United States in 1939. He went on to work as a staff photographer for Life magazine from 1943-1962, and became widely known for his photographic manuals, including The Complete Photographer.
The print offered here comes from the original dummy for Feininger’s 1939 book New Paths in Photography, published by American Photographic Publishing Co., Boston (plate 33). – Corners bumped, torn parts of paper on verso, some handling dents.