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[Werner Siedhoff, Naftali Rubinstein and Albert Menzel].
Creator
T. Lux FeiningerAmerican Photographer · 1910–2011
All works by this person →T. Lux Feininger was born in Berlin and spent his early years in Germany. He studied art at the Bauhaus School in Berlin under, among others, László Moholy Nagy and Oskar Schlemmer, yet he was unable to study photography there because it was not taught until 1929. Feininger learned it nevertheless, and in 1927 he went to work for the Berlin photo agency DEPHOT. Two years later he participated in t
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- about 1931
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
In 1926 Feininger became the youngest student to enroll at the Bauhaus (the architecture and design school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919). His father, the Expressionist painter Lyonel Feininger, was a teacher there. The style promoted by the Bauhaus--spare, geometric, and functional design--was one of the most influential in the 1920s and 1930s. A self-taught photographer, Feininger carried his nine-by-twelve-inch box camera wherever he went and recorded everyday life at the school. The framing of his photographs reflects the influence of Modernism and vividly transmits the creativity, spontaneity, and enthusiasm of life at the Bauhaus.
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