Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects.
The Photojournalist, showing the photojournalist Dennis Stock, may be Feininger's best-known photograph; he took it for Life in 1951.
View along US 40 in Mount Vernon Canyon, Colorado, 1942, a photograph taken when Feininger was an employee of the Office of War Information (OWI)
Creede, Colorado in 1942, another OWI photograph by Feininger
Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City. In 1887 he traveled to Europe and studied art in Hamburg, Berlin and Paris. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with much success in this area. He also worked as a commercial caricaturist for 20 years. At the age of 36, he began to work as a fine artist. His work, characterized above all by prismatically broken, overlapping forms in translucent colors, with many references to architecture and the sea, made him one of the most important artists of classical modernism. Furthermore he produced a large body of photographic works and created several piano compositions and fugues for organ.
Lyonel Feininger by Emil Orlik, 1906
Lyonel Feininger, 1914, Benz VI, oil on canvas, 100 × 125 cm (39.3 × 49.2 in)
Lyonel Feininger, 1924, Gaberndorf II, oil on canvas mounted on board, (39 7/16 × 30 3/4 in) Included in Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 46-10
Feininger Tour marker in Benz, Usedom Island, Germany