T. Lux Feininger

Mask-Scene I. NN, Werner Siedhoff, and NN

Maskenszene I. NN, Werner Siedhoff und NN

Repro: MAIN

1928-1929, in Dessau
Negative untracable
Prints known:
1. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. No.: Donation Dirk Scheper, Vintage, silver gelatin print, 128 x 142 mm. Verso stamped: OSKAR SCHLEMMMER, inscr. by another hand: "Maskenszene" Bauhausbühne 28-10 Photo zurück an: [stamp] Prof.Dr.Hans Hildebrandt, Stuttgart, Gerokstr. 63[?]
2. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. No.: Donation Dirk Scheper, silver gelatin print, 71 x 105 mm

Copy prints known:
I. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 79627, copy print 1983 (acetate film)
[Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer.
This scene on the Bauhaus stage Dessau depicts one of various performances playing with masks in 1928/29 [cf. 209, p. 268]. The performers on the left and on the right could not be identified, the mask on the right by T. Lux Feininger.]

Scheper: "The mask in its manifold variations of shape, color and material is subject of studies during the lessons of the stage-class and plays an important role at experimental peformances on the Bauhaus stage..."* [209, p. 268]
Themes: Bauhaus-Stage, Bauhaus