POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK.- The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents "Andreas Feininger," on view through March 16, 2003. Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) was the eldest son of American painter Lyonel Feininger. Raised in Europe, Andreas studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar in the 1920s before undertaking an architectural career. Political upheaval prompted Feininger to move to Sweden in the 1930s and take up photography for a livelihood. Even after moving in 1939 to New York City and landing a coveted position at Life magazine, Feininger maintained the outlook of a philosophical engineer, taking his viewers on a systematic tour of the observable universe. In over 350 picture stories for Life and more than 20 books of his own, Feininger gave graphic expression to such far-flung subjects as Manhattan, the crystallization of ice, the architecture of social insects, machinery in heavy industry, and the history of human settlement in North America.

This traveling exhibition, organized by curator Joel Smith, is drawn largely from the collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. The exhibition and its illustrated catalogue, featuring a checklist, chronology, and essay, were made possible by the support of the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.