T. Lux Feininger

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

   
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Treppenwitz-Pantomime II. Darsteller: Andor Weininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hermann C. Röseler, Werner Siedhoff
Staircase Wit* (l’esprit d’escalier) II. 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 14310 F

  • Prints known:
    1. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Inv. Nr.: I 14310 F, modern gelatin silver print, 130 x 180 mm. Verso inscr. lower left blue stamp: Abzug angefertigt von: Fotoatelier Louis Held Inh. Eberhard Renno 53 Weimar, Marienstraße 1 Telefon 2058 - Reg.-Nr. 27 Konto 4182-32-3929, center black stamp: ALLE VERWENDUNGSRECHTE BEIM BAUHAUS DESSAU FOTOTHEK, lower right black stamp: ARCHIVNUMMER:, and Inv. Nr.
    2. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. No.: Donation Dirk Scheper, detail, silver gelatin print, 104 x 73 mm

  • [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.]

    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)]

    Hans M. Wingler, BAUHAUS, Cambridge 1969, p. 468/ 470a: "... Photograph posed in the stage workshop in 1926 or 1927. Performers were Hildebrandt, Siedhoff, Schlemmer and Weininger. This pantomime was probably rehearsed in the latter part of 1925 and was repeatedly performed until 1929." ... "This photo, like those on the two preceding pages was taken by Lux Feininger"

  • Themes:  Bauhaus,  Bauhaus-Stage

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Exhibitions

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

Literature

Oskar Schlemmer und der Tanz Frank-Manuel Peter 2023 Köln, S./p. 570, Abb./ill.

METROMOD Global Metropolises Modern Art and Exile. Helene Roth 2021 München

KIOSK - Eine Geschichte der Fotoreportage / A history of photojournalism 1839-1973. Bodo von Dewitz [Hg./ed.], Robert Lebeck,  u.a./et al 2001 Köln, S./p. 119, 206

Oskar Schlemmer. Arnold L. Lehman, Brenda Richardson, Nancy J. Troy, Karin von Maur,  u.a./et al 1986 Baltimore, MD, S./p. 184, Abb./ill. [detail]

BAUHAUS - The Bauhaus Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago. Hans M. Wingler 1969 Cambridge, MA, S./p. 468-469, Abb./ill. b [detail]

Das Bauhaus - Weimar, Dessau, Berlin 1919-1933. Hans M. Wingler 1968 Köln, S./p. 447, Abb./ill. (Detail, 1925-29, NN)

Masken und Gesichte - Neueste Wege der Bühnenkunst. Fritz Goro 1928 Berlin, S./p. 5, Abb./ill. (Detail) "Kastenpromenade"

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