T. Lux Feininger

The Building as a Stage*. Members of the Stage Class on the Bauhaus Roof

Der Bau als Bühne. Mitglieder der Bauhausbühne auf dem Dach des Bauhauses

Repro: MAIN

1927, in Dessau
Autochrome diapositive, 118 x 89 mm, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Herbert Bayer, BR48.121.A
Copy prints known:
I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Gift of Herbert Bayer, Inv. Nr.: BR48.121, copy print from autochrome diapositive BR48.121A, around 1948, gelatin silver print b/w, 178 x 242 mm; printed in reverse
II. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: F3184, copy print around 1960, 123 x 173 mm. Verso inscr. on the cardboard: Schlemmer-Kostüme auf dem Bauhaus-Dach Photo Lux Feininger Negativ Busch Reisinger Museum; printed in reverse
[Group from left: Roman Clemens under the Big Mask, Andreas (Andor) Weininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hermann C. Röseler, Werner Siedhoff with ball [209, S. 151, no. 168, cf. another photograph from this session by Irene Bayer, 1927], costumes e.g. from the pantomimes Staircase Wit* (l’esprit d’escalier); Form Dance, Masked Company]

TLF 1947: "After completing the first term [at the Bauhaus 1927], the preliminary Vorkurs, I was admitted to the stage workshop, I was the happiest of students. ... The theories of stage craft were taught, seminary style, in informal classes sometimes held outdoors, on the Bauhaus roof. ..." [204]
Themes: Bauhaus-Stage, Bauhaus