Andreas Feininger is considered to be one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Born in Paris in 1906 as the eldest son of the famous painter Lyonel Feininger, he belongs to a post-World War I generation of artists who adopted photography as an artistic medium and created their own new photographic approach. Clarity, simplicity and organization are the basic principles of Feininger’s work; more than almost anyone, he knew how to merge pictorial content with austere formal parameters in composition and perspective.

For Feininger, the architecture and everyday life of his adopted home of New York proved to be a source of fascination for decades. Time and again, in evocative images, he captured the Manhattan skyline with its cavernous streets, skyscrapers, bridges and elevated trains. Today, his pictures of the metropolis are classics of photographic history. Over 90 black-and-white photographs are on view in the Bröhan Museum exhibition.