T. Lux Feininger

Staircase Wit* (l’esprit d’escalier) I. Performers: Andor Weininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hermann C. Röseler, Werner Siedhoff

   
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Treppenwitz-Pantomime I. Darsteller: Andor Weininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hermann C. Röseler, Werner Siedhoff
Staircase Wit* (l’esprit d’escalier) I. Performers: Andor Weininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hermann C. Röseler, Werner Siedhoff Repro: MAIN
  • 1927, in Dessau
  • Glass negative b/w, 130 x 180 mm, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Inv. Nr. I 14305 F

  • Prints known:
    1. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, modern silver gelatine print [from glass negative Inv. Nr. 14305F], 130 x180 mm, print by Fotoatelier Louis Held, Weimar

    Copy prints known:
    I. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr., copy print 1960ies [detail], 190 x 110 mm (acetate film)

  • [Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer. The ironic pantomime Treppenwitz/Staircase Wit* (l’esprit d’escalier) was performed in 1927, staged by using figures of the opening event for the Bauhaus building on 4 December 1926 (e.g. the musical clown for A. Weininger) and by the inventive use of the new mobile stage pedestals. - Not identified is the hidden dancer on the left, maybe Lou Scheper?]

    Scheper: "... The stage [of the Bauhaus] is equipped with a "four-row rail system for movable walls, props etc.". Additionally with 72m² of elevating platforms to raise the stage floor for half a meter, which as well can be used "for a stage production"**, of course.* [209, p. 138, **cf. 210 bauhaus 3 (1927)]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus-Stage,  Bauhaus

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Exhibitions

Versuchsstätte Bauhaus - Die Sammlung. 2019 Dessau

Ausdruckstanz und Bauhausbühne. 2019 Hannover, (Reproduktion)

Human-Space-Machine: Stage Experiments at the Bauhaus - Mensch-Raum-Maschine. 2013 Dessau - Dessau, Germany, Stiftung Bauhaus, December 6, 2013 - April 21, 2014
- Høvikodden, Norwegen, Henie Onstad Art Center: May 22 - September 21, 2014
- Seoul, Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art: November 12, 2014 - February 2, 2015

50 Jahre Bauhaus. 1968 Stuttgart

Literature

Experiment Weimar - Eine Kulturgeschichte Deutschlands 1918-1933. Sabina Becker 2018 Darmstadt, S./p. 501, Abb./ill.

Der Sprung über das Bauhaus - Das photographische Werk von T. Lux Feininger. Ulrike Staroste 2012 Berlin, S./p. 42, 110. Abb./ill. 44.

Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne. Dirk Scheper 1988 Berlin, S./p. 138. Abb./ill. 148.

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. 254, Abb./ill.

50 Jahre Bauhaus. Hans Eckstein, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Grote, Wulf Herzogenrath,  u.a./et al 1968 Stuttgart, S./p. 92, Abb./ill. 105

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