Andreas Feininger archive
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Not requestable
Scope and Contents
The strength of this collection is the numerous publications and photographic materials Feininger produced since his arrival in the United States in 1940. First as a freelance photographer and later as a staff photographer for Life, he contributed hundreds of images on a wide range of topics to that magazine and others. The collection contains scrapbooks filled with maps and ticket stubs, which trace several of his transcontinental journeys to complete his assignments. There are tearsheets from those assignments; publications incorporating commercial contributions by Feininger; manuscripts by him relating to his writings for periodicals and monographs; and an extensive collection of books authored by Feininger about the technical, practical, and aesthetic considerations of black-and-white and color photography. The photographic materials, a large segment of the collection, are primarily organized according to Feininger's own subject headings.
The collection sparsely documents Feininger's personal life; his relationships with his father, Lyonel Feininger, a painter, and his brothers, Laurence, a composer, and Theodore Lux, a painter; his early architectural studies in Europe; and his photographic firm in Sweden. The collection contains some early prints, but many of Feininger's early glass plate and blackand-white negatives and other materials were lost prior to his arrival in the United States in 1940.
Feininger's own organization of his materials was retained in the archive
Dates
- 1894-1999
Creator
- Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999 (Person)
Language of Materials
Material in English German Swedish
Conditions Governing Access
To access materials from this collection, please contact CCP-RefDesk@email.arizona.edu
Letters from Ralph Hattersley, 1973-88, are restricted. Permission of the correspondents necessary to read the letters.
Conditions Governing Access
The negatives in boxes 35 and 47 are currently inaccessible due to renovations in CCP's cold storage facility. Negatives will be accessible once the renovation is complete and the negative boxes have been transferred to the new frozen storage space. The estimated date of availability is mid-year of 2023, although not guaranteed. Please be sure to email CCP-RefDesk@email.arizona.edu with any questions or for updates.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission from the copyright owner (which could be the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates or literary executors) prior to any copyright-protected uses of the collection.
The user agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents, the University of Arizona, Center of Creative Photography, including its officers, employees, and agents, from and against all claims made relating to copyright or other intellectual property infringement
Biographical Note
See attached chronologies.
Extent
66.75 Linear Feet
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Papers and photographic materials, 1894 - 1999, of Andreas Feininger (l906 -1999), photographer and author. Includes biographical materials; correspondence; yearbooks; exhibitions files; manuscripts; publication files; scrapbooks; tearsheets; clippings; books; and negatives, contact sheets and study prints. The bulk of the collection documents Feininger's career in Europe and the United States especially his many photo-essays for Life and other magazines.
Arrangement
The Collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series 1: Biographical materials, 1960-
- Subseries 1: Collection Donation Administration
- Series 2: Correspondence, 1922-
- Series 3: Yearbooks, 1930-
- Series 4: Writings, 1936-
- Subseries 1: Manuscripts - Monographs
- Subseries 2: Manuscripts - Periodical articles and Miscellaneous
- Series 5: Exhibitions, 1948-
- Series 6: Publication files, 1934-
- Series 7: Scrapbooks, 1929-
- Series 8: Publications, ca. 1925-
- Subseries 1: Tearsheets, 1925-
- Subseries 2: Monographs, 1935-
- Subseries 3: Clippings, 1929
- Subseries 4: Miscellaneous printed materials, 1979-
- Series 9: Photographic materials, 1894-
- Subseries 1: Negatives
- Subseries 2: Contact sheets
- Subseries 3: Book project materials
- Subseries 4: Proof prints, study prints, vintage prints
- Subseries 5: Personal photographs
- Series 10: Small Objects of Nature
Custodial History
This collection was a gift to the Center from Andreas Feininger. The first accession arrived in 1980.
Processing Information
Initial organization was done by Stuart Alexander while preparing Feininger exhibition. Donna Bender organized the negatives in 1982. Judith Leckrone, David Peters and Roger Myers completed processing in 1985. Lisa Hodgkins processed additions to the archive in 2012-2013.
Revised January 1988.
Revised by Leslie Calmes, September 1990.
Revised by Lisa Hodgkins, May 2013
- Title
- Andreas Feininger Archive 1894-1999
- Author
- Finding aid created by CCP Archives Staff
- Date
- © 2019
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Creative Photography Archives Repository
