FEININGER, ANDREAS

born Dec. 27, 1906, Paris, France died Feb. 18, 1999, New York, N.Y., U.S. in full Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger American photographer and writer on photographic technique, noted for his nature and cityscape photographs. The eldest son of the modernist painter Lyonel Feininger, he attended the Bauhaus in Weimar, Ger., graduating in 1925. He studied architecture at the Bauschule in Zerbst, graduating in 1928. In 1933 he moved to Sweden and established a firm specializing in architectural and industrial photography. With the approach of World War II in 1939, he moved with his family to New York City and in 1943 became a staff photographer for Life magazine, a position he held until 1962. His photography for Life frequently involved the use of experimental techniques. Feininger wrote prolifically on photographic technique, producing such books as Feininger on Photography (1949), Advanced Photography (1952), The Complete Photographer (1965), and The Color Photo Book (1969). Collections of his photographs include The Anatomy of Nature (1956); The World Through My Eyes: 30 Years of Photography (1963); New York (1964), with text by Kate Simon; Forms of Nature and Life (1966); Trees (1968); Shells (1972); and The Mountains of the Mind (1977).