T. Lux Feininger

Metal Dance IV. Performer: Karla Grosch [Authorship uncertain]

   

Metalltanz IV. Darstellerin: Karla Grosch [Urheberschaft unklar]
Metal Dance IV. Performer: Karla Grosch [Authorship uncertain] Repro: MAIN
  • 1929, in Dessau
  • Negative untracable

  • Prints known:
    1. Kicken Belin Galerie, gelatin silver print, 92 x 135 cm. Vers inscr.: 1928 see Nishen bauhaus publ Binnemann foto var, foto Lux Feininger metalltanz karla grosch bauhausbühne oskar schlemmer variation published "bauhaus" magazine okt-dez 1929 ident. Binnemann, and other notes

  • [The authorship of this foto is uncertain.
    Various existing prints of this Bauhaus stage scene are attributed to different photographers.
    The attribution cannot be verified, since no negative nor a print with notes by the artist has been found.]

    [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
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