Andreas Feininger: career timeline

French · 1906–1999 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 81 of 99 lots (83% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Andreas Feininger: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1920s	3	2	$10.8kSign up	Photograph
1930s	3	2	$4.2kSign up	Photograph
1940s	47	40	$5.1kSign up	Photograph
1950s	18	12	$5.4kSign up	Photograph
1960s	3	2	$2.4kSign up	Photograph
1970s	3	3	$516Sign up	Photograph
1980s	4	3	$1.7kSign up	Photograph

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1920s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $10.8kSign up
Average: $10.8kSign up
Typical size: 9.5 × 7 in (24 × 18 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3)
Subjects: —

1928 Porträt Lyonel Feininger, Dessau$20.9kSign up
1929 Domkirche in GreifswaldUnsold
1929 Gotischer Giebel$628Sign up

1930s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $4.2kSign up
Average: $4.2kSign up
Typical size: 9.5 × 9 in (24 × 23 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3)
Subjects: Birds (1), Rivers & marshes (1)

1932 Opel$2.6kSign up
1933 Crane$5.7kSign up
1934 Lake Steamer, StockholmUnsold

1940s 47 works

Sold: 40 of 47
Median: $5.1kSign up
Average: $5.3kSign up
Typical size: 11 × 10.5 in (28 × 27 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (47)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (4), Markets & villages (4), Sea & coast (2)

1940 Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn Shore, New York$2.2kSign up
1940 View from Mather Tower, Chicago/Illinois$2.4kSign up
1940 New York, 9th Avenue Elevated$4kSign up
1940 N.Y. Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn ShoreUnsold
1940 N.Y. – Lower Broadway seen from Trinity Church CemeteryUnsold
1940 El Train, 9th Avenue$3.5kSign up
1940 N.Y. – 3rd ave“. 1940er Jahre$8.5kSign up
1940 Downtown Manhattan by Night, New York$2.8kSign up
1940 Cities service building$2.5kSign up
1940 Chelsea Rooftops in Snow. Vermutlich 1940er Jahre$5.6kSign up
1940 Cities Service Building$7.2kSign up
c. 1940 Sixth Avenue and Rockefeller Center, New York$2.6kSign up

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1950s 18 works

Sold: 12 of 18
Median: $5.4kSign up
Average: $7.7kSign up
Typical size: 14.5 × 13.5 in (36 × 35 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (16), Lithograph (2)
Subjects: Markets & villages (1)

1950 Lunch Rush on 5th Avenue, New York$2.9kSign up
1950 Nassau Street, New York, 1950$2kSign up
1950 Lunch Rush on 5th Avenue, New York$9.5kSign up
1951 Rear view of a trapdoor spider, cyclocosmia truncata (from Forms of nature)Unsold
1951 The photojournalist (Dennis Stock)Unsold
1951 The Photojournalist (Dennis Stock)Unsold
1952 Water Towers, New York$3.5kSign up
1952 The physicist$5.6kSign up
1953 <br> Route 66, Arizona, 1953<br>Result not published
1953 Route 66, ArizonaResult not published
1953 Route 66, Arizona$5.2kSign up
1953 Route 66, Arizona$4.8kSign up

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1954 View of NYC (from 254 to 512 St)$5.6kSign up
1955 The Photojournalist (Dennis Stock)$16.8kSign up
1955 The Photojournalist (Dennis Stock)$8.3kSign up
1955 The Photojournalist (Dennis Stock)$25.6kSign up
1955 The Photojournalist (Dennis Stock)Unsold
1959 Porsche racing I$2.5kSign up

1960s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $2.4kSign up
Average: $2.4kSign up
Typical size: 9.5 × 7.5 in (24 × 19 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

c. 1960 Park Avenue, New York$2kSign up
c. 1960 Portrait Herbert List$2.8kSign up
1962 Downtown ManhattanUnsold

1970s 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $516Sign up
Average: $515Sign up
Typical size: 12.5 × 9.5 in (32 × 24 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (1)

c. 1975 Wasp Nest$504Sign up
c. 1975 Bee Comb$524Sign up
c. 1975 Water/Lake Night Reflection$516Sign up

1980s 4 works

Sold: 3 of 4
Median: $1.7kSign up
Average: $2.2kSign up
Typical size: 9.5 × 8.5 in (25 × 22 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (4)
Subjects: —

1981 The Statue of Liberty seen from Manhattan, New York$3.4kSign up
1981 Fire Escape, New York$1.7kSign up
1981 Untitled$1.6kSign up
1984 Water TowersUnsold

Creation date not recorded

17 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2000s 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $3.4kSign up
Average: $3.5kSign up
Typical size: 8.5 × 8.5 in (22 × 21 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (4)
Subjects: —

sold 2005 Opel$3.9kSign up
sold 2009 WORLD TRADE CENTER, NEW YORK$3.4kSign up
sold 2009 FIFTH AVENUE, LUNCHTIME$3.3kSign up
sold 2009 N.Y. - ROCKEFELLER CENTER SEEN FROM W53RD ST.$3.3kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2010s 8 works

Sold: 8 of 8
Median: $3.8kSign up
Average: $4.5kSign up
Typical size: 12 × 9.5 in (31 × 24 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (8)
Subjects: Landscapes (2)

sold 2010 CITIES SERVICE BUILDING$4.8kSign up
sold 2010 Lower Manhattan seen from Brooklyn, <br />$6.5kSign up
sold 2010 Lower East Side and Brooklyn Bridge, <br />$7kSign up
sold 2011 THE PHOTOJOURNALIST (DENNIS STOCK)$12.9kSign up
sold 2013 Empire State Building, New York$2.8kSign up
sold 2017 Three Photographs of Tree Bark$605Sign up · sold 2×

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sold 2017 New York und Chicago in den Vierziger Jahren$607Sign up
sold 2017 Three Photographs of Tree Bark$605Sign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 5 works

Sold: 5 of 5
Median: $1.4kSign up
Average: $1.7kSign up
Typical size: 12 × 10 in (31 × 25 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (5)
Subjects: —

sold 2021 Empire State Building$2.3kSign up
sold 2021 Untitled$971Sign up
sold 2021 Empire State Building$3.1kSign up
sold 2024 Jewish Shop on the Lower East Side, Manhattan$567Sign up
sold 2026 Elevated Train, Ninth Avenue, New York$1.4kSign up

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Andreas Feininger auction results →