T. Lux Feininger

The Building as a Stage*

   

Der Bau als Bühne*
The Building as a Stage* Repro: MAIN
  • 1927, in Dessau
  • Negative untracable

  • Prints known:
    1. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Inv. Nr. SC1974.51.13, gelatin silver print, 103 x 80 mm, and Inv. Nr.
    2. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Inv. Nr.: 84.XM.127.15, Agfa Lupex gelatin silver print, 173 x 111 mm. Verso inscr.: T. Schlemmer, D. Keller, 63, 23, A280, and Inv. Nr. [Detail]

    Copy prints known:
    I. Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 9818, new print or copy print 1950ies, gelatin silver print, 255 x 202 mm. Verso inscr. red stamp: For study purposes only. No reproduction without permission, black stamp: THE LIBRARY, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, center: 483, 130H, 70B, BU54, lower center: Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, lower left blue stamp: BAUHAUS-ARCHIV, and Inv. Nr.
    II. Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Inv. Nr.: 4785 & 4786, 265 x 193 mm, bookcover "Bauhaus 1919-1928" for the exhibition in the MoMa, New York, 1938. Design by Herbert Bayer using a motive from T. Lux Feininger, print in black/blue and black/red
    III. Private collection, later print, Kodak paper, 254 x 203 mm. Verso inscr.: 84.XM.127.15, Unknown [crossed out] FEININGER, T. LUX
    IV. Archiv Arts Décoratifs Paris, Inv. XU802, print in black/red

  • [Group from above: Oskar Schlemmer, Hermann Clemens Röseler, Roman Clemens (Big Mask), Andreas (Andor) Weininger, Werner Siedhoff . Costumes e.g. from the pantomimes Staircase Wit* (l’esprit d’escalier), Form Dance and Masked Company.]

    TLF: "[Photo] By me. About 1928" [215]
    TLF: "That was a big action... Schlemmer arranged the whole thing. That was his main ideal - to use this Bauhaus as a stage. ... There, everyone who had a camera ... took photographs."* [208, p. 25].

    Scheper: "... The opportunity to use the various construction units of the building as an open air stage with different levels has been documented in a photography from 1927 ..., but the stage-class never produced a staging that went beyond this kind of [then photographed] demonstrations."* [209, p. 138; cf. another photograph probably from this session by Irene Bayer, p. 151, no. 168]

    [Photograph by Herbert Bayer selected for catalog title and poster motif for the exhibition in1938 organized by Bayer and Walter and Ise Gropius for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, "The Bauhaus: 1919-1928," which documented the Bauhaus during the period of Gropius' directorship. T. Lux Feininger collaborated in the preparations for the exhibitions and for the catalog, and photographs by him were also represented in the exhibition and in the catalog].

  • Themes:  Bauhaus Bauhaus-Stage

Exhibitions

L'Esprit du Bauhaus. 2016 Paris

Neupräsentation/Ständige Ausstellung 2015. 2015 Berlin

T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag - Fotografie am Bauhaus. 2010 Benz, Nr. 23

T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag. 2010 Berlin Pressetext Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin: T. Lux Feininger gehört zu den einflussreichsten Fotografen am Bauhaus. Der jüngste Sohn des Bauhaus-Meisters Lyonel Feininger dokumentierte seit 1926 die Arbeit der Bühnenklasse und gestaltete mit seinen bewussten fotografischen Inszenierungen die mediale Wirkung des Bauhauses mit. Den Umgang mit der Kamera brachte er sich selbst bei. Als einer der letzten Zeitzeugen des Bauhauses begeht T. Lux Feininger am 11. Juni 2010 seinen 100. Geburtstag. Zu diesem runden Jubiläum würdigt das Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin den Bauhäusler innerhalb der Ständigen Sammlung mit einer kleinen Hommage aus 17 Fotografien, die vom 9. Juni bis 8. November 2010 zu sehen sind.

Experiment Bauhaus - Das Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin (West) zu Gast im Bauhaus Dessau, DDR. 1988 Dessau, Nr. 192

The Bauhaus - How it Worked. 1939 New York - Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of American Art: April 10 - May 8, 1939
- Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota: July 14 - August 4, 1939
- Tallahassee, FL, Florida State College for Women: October 1 - October 22, 1939
- New Orleans, LA, Art Association of New Orleans: November 1 - November 22, 1939
- Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University: December 1 - December 22, 1939
- Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Robinson Hall: January 2 - January 23, 1940
- Seattle, WA, University of Washington: February 6 - February 27, 1940
- San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Museum of Art: March 8 - March 29, 1940
- Oakland, CA, Mills College: April 3 - May 5, 1940
- Williamstown, MA, Williams College: May 13 - June 8, 1940

[UPDATE 2020: https://forschungsstelle.bauhaus.community; weitere 6 Werke bis dato nicht identifiziert / 6 more works, not identified yet]

The Bauhaus 1919-1928. 1938 New York, Katalogtitel - New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art: December 7, 1938 - January 30, 1939
- Springfield, MA, George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery of Art: March 1 - March 29, 1939
- Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Art Institute: November 1 - December 6, 1939
- Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art: January 17 - February 24, 1940
- Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, March 8 - April 5, 1940

[UPDATE 2020: https://forschungsstelle.bauhaus.community]

Literature

Bauhaus Style Mateo Kries 2023 New York, S./p. 18, Abb./ill.

METROMOD Global Metropolises Modern Art and Exile. Helene Roth 2021 München

Taking a Stand? Debating the Bauhaus and Modernism. Andrea Bärnreuther [Hg./ed.], Winfried Nerdinger,  u.a./et al 2021 Berlin, S./p. 61, Abb./ill. [book cover]

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931 - Facsimile Edition. Lars Müller 2019 Zürich / Berlin, bauhaus 3, 1927

Experiment Weimar - Eine Kulturgeschichte Deutschlands 1918-1933. Sabina Becker 2018 Darmstadt, S./p. 518, Abb./ill.

L'Esprit Du Bauhaus. Louise Curtis, Mathieu Mercier, Anne Monier,  u.a./et al 2016 Paris, S./p. 230 Abb./ill., #8

Der Sprung über das Bauhaus - Das photographische Werk von T. Lux Feininger. Ulrike Staroste 2012 Berlin, S./p. 42, 58, 99, 105, 109. Abb./ill. 11, 43.

Bauhaus: Dessau, Chicago, New York. Georg W. Költzsch [Hg./ed.], Margarita Tupitsyn [Hg./ed.],  u.a./et al 2000 Essen, S./p. 172, Abb./ill. 134

Bauhaus Archiv Berlin - Die Sammlung. Magdalena Droste, Peter Hahn, Karsten Hinz, Klaus Weber,  u.a./et al 1999 Berlin, S./p. 177, Abb./ill. 5

Fotografie am Bauhaus - Überblick über eine Periode der Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert. Jeannine Fiedler, Sabine Hartmann,  u.a./et al 1990 Berlin, S./p. 149, 234, 330, Abb./ill. 361

5. Internationales Bauhaus-Kolloquium vom 27. bis 30. Juni 1989. H. Siegel 1989 Weimar, Collage um/around 1930

Experiment Bauhaus - Das Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin (West) zu Gast im Bauhaus Dessau (DDR). Magdalena Droste, Jeannine Fiedler, Peter Hahn, Dirk Scheper, Klaus Weber,  u.a./et al 1988 Berlin, S./p. 232-233, Abb./ill.

Oskar Schlemmer. Arnold L. Lehman, Brenda Richardson, Nancy J. Troy, Karin von Maur,  u.a./et al 1986 Baltimore, MD, S./p. 180, Abb./ill.

Bauhaus Photographie. Christian Bouqueret 1983 Arles, S./p. 7, Abb./ill. [gespiegelt/mirrored]

BAUHAUS - The Bauhaus Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago. Hans M. Wingler 1969 Cambridge, MA, S./p. 480-481, Abb./ill. e

Das Bauhaus - Weimar, Dessau, Berlin 1919-1933. Hans M. Wingler 1968 Köln, S./p. 458, Abb./ill. (um 1927)

The Theater of the Bauhaus. Walter Gropius [Hg./ed.], László Moholy-Nagy, Farkas Molnar, Oskar Schlemmer 1961 Middletown, CT, S./p. 72, Abb./ill.

Bauhaus 1919-1928. Herbert Bayer [Hg./ed.], Ise Gropius [Hg./ed.], Walter Gropius [Hg./ed.], Alfred H. Barr, Alexander Dorner 1938 New York, Titel/title (Druck schwarz/blau, print black/blue)

RED. Měsíčník pro moderni kulturu - Sonderheft bauhaus dessau. Hannes Meyer, Karel Teige,  u.a./et al 1930 Prag, S./p. 131, Abb./ill., Collage

Bauhaus 3. Oskar Schlemmer 1927 Dessau, S./p. 4, Abb./ill. 23

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