Based on the approximately five hundred prints in the collection of Harvard's Houghton Library, as well as negatives and slides from the Harvard Art Museum's Lyonel Feininger Archive, this website allows visitors to search and browse hundreds of Feininger's photographs created over a period of fifty years. The types of material range from early family snapshots to color slides from the 1940s and '50s. There's also a chronology of Feininger's life from 1871-1956 and a bibliography with links to other exhibitions at Harvard. Feininger's photographic subjects are accompanied by short descriptive summaries. For example, the summary for Bauhaus explains how Feininger first began photographing with artistic intent in 1928 while a master at the Bauhaus. Additionally, there are photographs of the Baltic seacoast where Feininger spent parts of his summers beginning in 1892 and photographs that highlight his persistent interest in photographing shop windows, which began in Weimar Germany and continued in New York City and San Francisco.
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