Collection, 1892-1955.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Collection, 1892-1955.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234360218

Collection consists of 5,000 working drawings by Feininger; 19,100 photographs taken by Feininger; personal correspondence; 13 unfinished oil paintings; and exhibition catalogues. Photographs include 990 glass plate negatives, 3 electroplates, 12,000 frames of 35mm. film, 1,100 black and white photographs, and 5,000 slides. About 1500 of the slides were hand-mounted and classified by Feininger. Also included in the slides are 10 which were hand-drawn by Feininger; several travel photographs, dated 1922 to 1955, taken by Feininger in Europe and the United States; reproductions of works of art by Feininger and other artists; and positive and negative slides of the same subject, possibly used as a teaching tool.

ca. 19,100 photographic images and 5,000 drawings.

Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7111739

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t72jnk (person)

Feininger was an American-born artist who went to Germany in 1887 and returned to the U.S. in 1936. From the description of Papers, 1883-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122520943 From the description of Drawings for Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's Norvegische Volksmärchen, 1908. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84317440 From the description of Lyonel Feininger photographs, 1896-1942. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612196407 ...

Feininger, Julia Lilienfeld, 1880-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t46qb3 (person)