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Feininger, Andreas
(1906-1999)Empire State Building, New York

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Empire State Building, New York. 1940. Gelatin silver print, printed later, mounted in mat. 29,5 x 23,7 cm (sheet 35,5 x 27,5 cm). Signed by the photographer in ink in lower right margin.

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.