T. Lux Feininger (1910–2011) was an American painter,
avant-garde photographer, author, and art teacher who was born in Berlin to
Julia Berg and Lyonel Charles Feininger, an American living in Germany from the
age of sixteen.
At sixteen, Lux Feininger became a student at the Bauhaus at
Dessau, where he studied painting with Josef Albers, Paul Klee, and Wassily
Kandinsky, played in a student jazz band, and participated in experimental theatre.
It was here that he began taking photographs and assumed the role of an
artistic photojournalist chronicling the daily life at Bauhaus.
Although no
photographic studio was part of the Bauhaus until 1929, his photography was
influenced by the aesthetic of László Moholy-Nagy, who lived adjacent to the
Feininger family. Soon Feininger was selling his photographs to periodicals and
newspapers through an agency. By 1929 his work was featured in Film und Foto, a survey of modern
photography.
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