1960 Photography, a Creative Form in Art; Newark
Museum, Newark, New Jersey
1967 An Exhibition of Works by Lyonel Feininger, T. Lux
Feininger, Andreas Feininger, and Laurence Feininger;Aus-
tin Arts Center, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
1967 Once Invisible; Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968 Two Generations, Two Visions—an Exhibition of
Photographs by Andreas Feininger from his book
Forms of Nature and Life, and paintings by Lyonel Fei-
ninger from the Museum of Modern Art exhibitThe
Ruin by the Sea; The Heckscher Museum, Huntington,
New York
1971 Photo Eye of the 20’s; George Eastman House,
Rochester, New York and Museum of Modern Art,
New York
1973 Landscape/Cityscape; Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
1974 Manhattan Now; New York Historical Society, New
York
Selected Works
Self-Portrait, Dessau, Germany, 1927
Reed Stalk, 1935
Coney Island Beach on the Fourth of July, 1949, 1949
Helicopter During Take-off, New Jersey, 1949
Traffic on Fifth Avenue, 1950
Photojournalist Dennis Stock, 1951
Feather, c. 1956Further Reading
Alexander, Stuart. ‘‘Andreas Feininger: Early Work.’’The
ArchiveCenter for Creative Photography, University of
Arizona. no. 17 (March 1983): 4–14.
Andreas Feininger: A Retrospective. New York: Interna-
tional Center of Photography, 1976.
Berkley, Miriam. ‘‘The Quiet Man.’’American Photogra-
pher(March 1987): 50–59.
Cameron, Franklin. ‘‘Meet the Masters.’’PhotoGraphic
(March 1987): 38–40.
———. ‘‘Relativity.’’Photographic(October 1988): 26–30.
Hattersley, Ralph.Andreas Feininger. Dobbs Ferry, NY:
Morgan & Morgan, Inc., 1973.
Feininger, Andreas.The Anatomy of Nature. New York:
Dover Publications, Inc., 1956.
———. Andreas Feininger: Photographer. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986.
———.Shells. New York: The Viking Press, 1972.
Schlatter, N. Elizabeth.Structures of Nature: Photographs
of Andreas Feininger. Richmond: University of Rich-
mond Museums, 2001.
Smith, Joel.Andreas Feininger. Poughkeepsie, NY: Frances
Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar University, 2003.T. LUX FEININGER
German
The youngest of three sons born to caricaturist and
painter Lyonel Feininger and Julia Berg, Theodore
Lucas Feininger was also one of the youngest stu-
dents ever enrolled in Germany’s Bauhaus Ins-
titute of Architecture and Design. Although he
would later insist that he was a painter, not a
photographer, during his brief photographic career
Feininger produced playful candid snapshots and
formal studies that described everyday life at the
Bauhaus and the waning years of Germany’s ‘‘gol-
den’’ interregnum era.
T. Lux’s father Lyonel was born in New York to
German immigrant parents, and in 1871 he re-
turned to Germany; he studied visual arts in Ham-
burg, Berlin, and Paris. After 14 years working as a
caricaturist and draftsman, on the eve of World
War I, Lyonel was appointed a ‘‘master’’ at the
Bauhaus in Dessau, where two of his sons were
later enrolled. Despite the fact that the elder Fei-
ninger was directly opposed to the implementation
of formal photographic study at the Bauhaus, all of
the Feininger boys experimented with the medium
and freelanced as professional photojournalists at
one time or another. T. Lux’s eldest brother, An-
dreas Feininger, trained as an architect but became
well known as a photographer in the United States,
publishing more than 350 photographic essays in
Lifemagazine between 1943 and 1962. But it was T.
Lux who first took an interest in photography
when, as a teenager, he discovered his grandmo-
ther’s Kodak box camera in the attic of the family’s
home in Weimar. Within a year, he had purchased a
9 12 inch plate camera and, with Andreas’s assis-
tance, set up a darkroom in their home in Dessau.FEININGER, ANDREAS