T. Lux Feininger

Metal Dance I. Performer: Karla Grosch

   

Metalltanz I. Darstellerin Karla Grosch
Metal Dance I. Performer: Karla Grosch Repro: MAIN
  • 1929, in Dessau
  • Negative untracable

  • Prints known:
    1. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 10370/1, gelatin silver print, 74 x 58 mm. Verso inscr.: Reihe 14 /184930 Oskar Schlemmer Metalltanz, Dessau,Bauhausbühne
    2. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Inv. Nr.: 84.XM.127.20, gelatin silver print, 171 x 114 mm. Verso inscr.: Oskar Schlemmer Metall-Tanz (Carla Grosch) Photo. Lux Feininger, in red: Metalltanz Carla Grosch foto Lux Feininger, blue stamp: Dr. Adolf Behne

  • [Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer.
    The premiere of this performance of c. one and a half minutes took place as part of the matinee show of the Bauhaus-Stage at the Volksbühne Berlin, on 3 March 1929. The stage set of the Metal Dance is tightly limited by four metallic pillars in the back and by metal sheets on the left, right and bottom. On the latter the dancer in her metal hood acts with reflecting spheres in both hands.]

    Scheper: "Schlemmer, who calls stage lighting as being 'illusionistic', plays with the phenomenon that reflections of light on metal cannot be controlled. and he creates an interplay of the dancer with the many effects of light and shadow and the reflections of the metallic scenery and bottom sheet. And he demonstrates material properties as well as possibilities of lighting in the space of a stage..." [209, p. 194]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus-Stage Bauhaus

Exhibitions

Leuchtendes Geheimnis - Kinder kuratieren Klee. 2022 Bern

Ausdruckstanz und Bauhausbühne. 2019 Hannover, (Reproduktion)

L'Esprit du Bauhaus. 2016 Paris

Das Bauhaus tanzt. 2015 Leverkusen, (Reproduktion) Eine Ausstellung der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau in Kooperation mit Bayer Kultur.

The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-37. 2011 Sydney - Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales: August 6 - November 6, 2011
- Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria: November 25, 2011 - March 4, 2012

50 Jahre Bauhaus. 1968 Stuttgart

Literature

Bauhaus Style Mateo Kries 2023 New York, S./p. 199, Abb./ill.

Le Coreografie astratte di Oskar Schlemmer - arte totale e teatro totale. Lino Cabras 2022 Melfi, Italy, S./p. 45, Abb./ill.

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

L'Esprit Du Bauhaus. Louise Curtis, Mathieu Mercier, Anne Monier,  u.a./et al 2016 Paris, S./p. 155 Abb./ill., #11

Bauhaus No 8 - Bewegung. Torsten Blume, Claudia Perren, Wolfgang Thöner,  u.a./et al 2016 Dessau, Titel/cover

Das Bauhaus tanzt / Dance the Bauhaus. Torsten Blume 2015 Leipzig, S./p. 39, Abb./ill.

Mensch Raum Maschine - Bühnenexperimente am Bauhaus / Human Space Machine - stage experiments at the Bauhaus. Torsten Blume [Hg./ed.], Christian Hiller [Hg./ed.],  u.a./et al 2013 Dessau, S./p. 185, Abb./ill. [hic R. Binnemann]

Bauhaus Bühne 2. Lena Grottendieck [Hg./ed.], Marie Neumüllers 1999 Dessau, S./p. 6, Abb./ill.

Fotografie am Bauhaus - Überblick über eine Periode der Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert. Jeannine Fiedler, Sabine Hartmann,  u.a./et al 1990 Berlin, S./p. 333, Abb./ill. 392 [hic R. Binnemann]

Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne. Dirk Scheper 1988 Berlin, S./p. 193. Abb./ill. 217.

Oskar Schlemmer. Arnold L. Lehman, Brenda Richardson, Nancy J. Troy, Karin von Maur,  u.a./et al 1986 Baltimore, MD, S./p. 148, Abb./ill.

BAUHAUS - The Bauhaus Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago. Hans M. Wingler 1969 Cambridge, MA, S./p. 520, Abb./ill. a

Das Bauhaus - Weimar, Dessau, Berlin 1919-1933. Hans M. Wingler 1968 Köln, S./p. 489, Abb./ill. (1928-1929, NN)

50 Jahre Bauhaus. Hans Eckstein, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Grote, Wulf Herzogenrath,  u.a./et al 1968 Stuttgart, S./p. 91, Abb./ill. 93

Bauhaus - Okt.-Dez. Oskar Schlemmer 1929 Dessau, S./p. 3, Abb./ill.

Das neue Berlin - Grosstadtprobleme. Alfred Döblin, Walter Gropius, Bruno Taut, Martin Wagner,  u.a./et al 1929 Berlin, S./p. 85, Abb.

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