T. Lux Feininger

Musical Clownery IV. Performer: Oskar Schlemmer as musical clown [Authorship uncertain]

Musikalische Clownerie IV. Darsteller: Oskar Schlemmer als musikalischer Clown [Urheberschaft unklar]

Musical Clownery IV. Performer: Oskar Schlemmer as musical clown [Authorship uncertain]

Repro: MAIN

1928, July, in Dessau
Glass negative,180 x 130 mm, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Inv. Nr.: I 14304
Prints known:
1.The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Inv. Nr.: 84.XM.127.17, vintage, gelatin silver print, 168 x 118 mm. Verso inscr.: O. S. als musikalischer "Clown" Bauhausbühne dessau, Photo zurück an:, red stamp: Prof. Dr. Hans Hildebrandt Stuttgart, Gerokstrasse 83, und Inv. Nr.

Copy prints known:
I. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Inv. Nr.: I 14304F, gelatin silver print, 180 x 130 mm. Verso inscr.: Lux Feininger (Fotograf) Bauhausfoto: Oskar Schlemmer als "musikalischer Clown" (Version 1), 1927 Abzug vom Original-Glasnegativ (Bauhaus Dessau), lower left blue stamp: Bauhaus Dessau Telefon 4053, 4919, 4052 PSF 160 Dessau 4500, lower right blue stamp: Abzug angefertigt von: Fotoatelier Louis Held Inh. Eberhard Renno 53 Weimar, Marienstraße 1 Telefon 2058 - Reg.-Nr. 27 Konto 4182-32-3929, lower left: 3526 N 431 DIAPOS, and Inv. Nr.
[During the show of the stage-class at the end of the summer semester, on July 7, 1928, Oskar Schlemmer performs the new version of his 'Musical Clown' for the very first time.]

[The authorship of this photo is uncertain. The Getty Museum lists their copy as being by T. Lux Feininger. TLF writes in his letter dated April 28, 1990 to the Getty: "Not by me". - However the print bears particular characteristics known from the dark room of the artist.]

TLF: "[Photo] Not by me. Occasion and date the same as preceding [cf. Bauhaus stage: Oskar Schlemmer as musical clown... Getty-Inv. Nr.: 84.XM.127.4 annd 84.XM.127.16]. - The "cello" was an ingenious, battery-operated device created by Roman Clemens who in later life became a well-known theatre man; the "bow" was a fending foil which is seen also in other photographs in this lot." [215]
Themes: Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Stage

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Exhibitions

Versuchsstätte Bauhaus - Die Sammlung. 2019 Dessau

Human-Space-Machine: Stage Experiments at the Bauhaus - Mensch-Raum-Maschine. 2013 Dessau - Dessau, Germany, Stiftung Bauhaus, December 6, 2013 - April 21, 2014
- Høvikodden, Norwegen, Henie Onstad Art Center: May 22 - September 21, 2014
- Seoul, Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art: November 12, 2014 - February 2, 2015

Lyonel Feininger - Photographs 1928-1939. 2011 Berlin - Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: February 26 - May 15, 2011
- München, Staatliche Graphische Sammmlung, Pinakothek der Moderne: June 2 - July 17, 2011
- Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum: October 25, 2011 - March 11, 2012
- Cambridge, MA, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum: March 30 - June 2, 2012

Literature

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931 - Facsimile Edition. Lars Müller 2019 Zürich / Berlin, bauhaus 4, 1929

Bauhaus - Okt.-Dez. Oskar Schlemmer 1929 Dessau, S./p. 1, Title