id: 154806 accession number: 1989.389 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.389 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:06.580000 Elevated Trestle on Division Street, Lower Manhattan, 1940. Andreas Feininger (American, 1906–1999). Gelatin silver print; image: 24.3 x 20.5 cm (9 9/16 x 8 1/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann 1989.389 title: Elevated Trestle on Division Street, Lower Manhattan title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1940 creation date earliest: 1940 creation date latest: 1940 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Andreas Feininger (American, 1906–1999) - artist Andreas Feininger American, b. France, 1906-1999. Born in Paris, Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger is a documentary photographer who has specialized in photojournalism as well as architectural and nature studies. He trained as a cabinetmaker at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany (1922-25) (where his father, the American painter Lyonel Feininger, was a teacher), and then as an architect at the Staatliche Bauschule Weimar and the Anhaltische Bauschule in Zerbst (1925-28). During his architectural studies, Feininger became interested in photography and in 1927 set up his own darkroom. In 1928 he began working for the architectural firm of Kurt Elster in Dessau, followed by a job as an architect for the Karstadt department store in Hamburg (1930-31). In 1930 Feininger's photographs started to appear in German newspapers and magazines through his association with the cooperative photojournalist agency, Dephot. He spent the next year traveling and photographing architecture in Germany and France (1931-32), then moved to Paris after it became difficult for foreigners to find employment in Germany. He worked for the architect Le Corbusier for 10 months and, when unable to obtain a French work permit, moved to Sweden in 1933. Feininger decided to become a professional photographer and in 1934 opened a studio that specialized in architectural photography. That same year he also published the first of many technical books on photography. After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Feininger left Europe for New York City. He established himself as a freelance photographer, working for the Black Star Photo Agency and Life magazine. In 1943 he became a staff photographer for Life, specializing in images of New York. He continued his association with Life until 1962, when he resigned to focus on his own work. In addition to his career as a photojournalist and architectural photographer, Feininger has devoted much time since the 1950s to nature photography. An interest in ecology led him to begin a photographic study of the natural world and resulted in the book The Anatomy of Nature (1956), followed by Forms of Nature and Life (1966) and Trees (1968). Throughout his career, Feininger has taken part in numerous exhibitions, including the 1929 Film und Foto show in Stuttgart as well as one-artist exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History, New York (1957), the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1963), and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson (1981). --- measurements: Image: 24.3 x 20.5 cm (9 9/16 x 8 1/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "N/g"; "6/12"; "N.Y.--Division Street"; "9+13 [circled]"; "51 / aife[?]"; "AFNY41-4V-1"; "A. Feininger [signed]"; in green felt pen: "p.119 [circled]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: American Cities: The Artist's View opening date: 1989-10-17T04:00:00 American Cities: The Artist's View. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 17, 1989-January 7, 1990). title: The Year in Review for 1989 opening date: 1990-02-06T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990). title: Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1997-11-16T00:00:00 Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1997-March 1, 1998). title: Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-06-24T00:00:00 Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007). title: Life is a Highway: American Car Culture opening date: 2019-06-15T04:00:00 Life is a Highway: American Car Culture. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (organizer) (June 15-September 15, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990: "Year in Review 1989," CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 67. no. 36.', 'opening_date': '1990-02-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 11/16/97 - 3/1/98. "Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection."', 'opening_date': '1997-11-16T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '2007-06-24T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 154 url: --- IMAGES