Overview
Black-and-white photographs taken by Lyonel Feininger.
Dates
- 1896-1942
Conditions Governing Access
Restricted: fragile; use surrogate. For access to original consult curatorial staff.
Conditions Governing Use
Images linked to this finding aid are intended for public access and educational use. This material is owned and/or held by the Houghton Library, and is provided solely for the purpose of teaching or individual research. Any other use, including commercial reuse, mounting on other systems, or other forms of redistribution requires the permission of the curator.
Copyright in these images is administered by Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Extent
2 linear feet (6 boxes)531 black-and-white photographs taken by Lyonel Feininger. The photographs were identified, given titles, and arranged by T. Lux Feininger, the artist's son. Collection includes T. Lux Feininger's card index to this collection (item 532), from which the collection finding aid was produced; and some family photographs, including photographs of Lyonel's wife, Julia Feininger.
Biographical / Historical
Feininger was an American-born artist who went to Germany in 1887 and returned to the U.S. in 1936.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. Portrait and figure
- II. Architecture
- A. Ruins
- B. Villlage and rustic
- C. Quimper, St. Malo
- D. Paris
- E. Halle a.d. Saale
- F. L. F. enlargements from negatives not by him
- G. Unidentified places
- III. The sea
- IV. Deep [the genius loci]
- V. Railroads
- VI. "Feininger special"
- VII. The street
- VIII. Halle studio
- IX. Harborside
- X. Still life
- XI. Shop windows
- XII. Model yachts
- XIII. Mr. T. Lux Feininger's catalogue of this collection
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
87M-86. Gift of Mr. T. Lux Feininger, 22 Arlington Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140; received: 1987 September.
Bibliography
Processing Information
Processed by: Elizabeth Falsey
- Title
- Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956. Lyonel Feininger photographs, 1896-1942: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00040
Repository Details
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