Feininger, Andreas, 1906-

Feininger, Andreas. American Photographer. Born: Paris, December 27 1906. Education: Attended public schools in Germany; studied cabinet-making, under Walter Gropius, at the Bauhaus, Weimar, 1922-25, and architecture at the Bauschule, Weimar, 1925-26, and at the Staatliche Bauschule, Zerbst, Germany, 1926-28; self-taught in photography. Family: Married Gertrud Wysse Hagg in 1933; son: Toma. Career: Practicing architect, Dessau and Hamburg, 1928-31; Assistant Architect, Office of Le Corbusier, Paris, 1932-33; architectural and industrial photographer, Stockholm, 1933-39; freelance photojournalist, with Black Star Photo Agency, New York, 1940-41; War Correspondent/Photographer, United States Office of War Information, 1941-42; Staff Photographer, Life magazine, New York, 1943-62. Freelance photographer, New York and Connecticut, since 1962. Instructor in Creative Photocommunications, New York University, 1972. Recipient: Bronze Medal, Fotografiska Foreningen, Stockholm, 1938-1939; Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, 1965; Robert Leavitt Award, American Society of Magazine Photographers, 1966.