T. Lux Feininger

Employment office Dessau II*

Arbeitsamt Dessau II

Repro: MAIN

1927-1928, in Dessau
Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. lower right: 107, 70 x 55 mm
Prints known:
1. Private collection, vintage, Agfa Lupex gelatin silver print, 119 x 89 mm. Verso inscr. by the Artist: photo Lux Feininger, in red: x, in black: o, white label: 107, and Inv. Nr.
2. Private collection, later print, gelatin silver print, 253 x 203 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: 106 or 107 [crossed out]
TLF: "... Arbeitsamt Dessau, gropius. Photos were an assignment." [201]

[In his photographs of the Arbeitsamt (labor office) T. Lux Feininger shows "a more relaxed and playful relation to the camera” [Philip Ursprung] and his love for the Dutch angle; he is interested in the free play of the horizontal and vertical, the slants of the surfaces, light and shadow. His image compositions rely on the dynamics of lines and planes that appear in the building structure, in the shadows cast by the architecture. The then seventeen year old is not primarily interested in the documentation of architecture and constructional solutions.]
Themes: Bauhaus