T. Lux Feininger

Scenery Dance I. Performers: Albert Mentzel, Werner Siedhoff, Edward Fischer lying

Kulissentanz I. Darsteller: Albert Mentzel, Werner Siedhoff, liegend Edward Fischer

Repro: I. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

1929, in Dessau
Negative untracable
Prints known:
1. Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. no.: Donation Dirk Scheper, Vintage, silver gelatin paper, 85 x 106 mm. Verso inscr. by another hand: Schlemmer Kulissentanz Siedhoff Mentzel Fisher, and numbered in green in circle: (6.), and width indication: 6 cm; cut stamp: ...rückerbeten!
2. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. No.: Donation Dirk Scheper, silver gelatin print, 73 x 107 mm

Copy prints known:
I. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 3252_22 (from the estate of Oskar Schlemmer, inscr. "bi" (Binnemann), no further information [600].
cf.: Dirk Scheper, Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne, p. 190. Abb./ill. 211 [209].
[By the beginning of 1929 the Scenery Dance, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer, is integral part of the repertory of the Bauhaus-Stage Dessau and performed within the program at the matinee show of the Volksbühne Berlin, on 3 March 1929. - The 24 phases, performed within c. 5 minutes, touch human behaviours and create a mood between hunour and eeriness.]

Scheper: "Schlemmer explains: 'The stucture of the space is built by four colored backdrops [2 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow]; this scenery creates 'alleys' and 'aisles' in which the 'through', the 'along', the 'in-front' and 'behind' is demonstrated'."* [209, S 190, O.S. im Programm der Aufführung Basel, 28.4.1929]
Themes: Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Stage