T. Lux Feininger

Hoop Dance*. Ballet Méchanique (Material spectacle*). Also: Metallic Party* wire decorations

   
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Reifentanz. Ballet Méchanique (Materialschauspiel). Auch: Metallisches Fest-Bühnendekoration
Hoop Dance*. Ballet Méchanique (Material spectacle*). Also: Metallic Party* wire decorations Repro: MAIN
  • 1929, in Dessau
  • Glass negative, 90 x 118 mm

  • Prints known:
    1. Private collection, vintage, gelatin silver print, 101 x 130 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: deux figurines en fil de fer poli par Schlemmer (hauteur environ 2 1/2 mètres, suspendus d'en haut de la scène) "rideaux" également en fil de fer" le Tout part d'un "Ballet Mècanique" 1928 Lux Feininger, and Inv. Nr. [Scenery from Intermezzo, Material spectacle]
    2. Galerie Berinson, Berlin, gelatin silver print, 101 x 127 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: (c) T. Lux Feininger Wire Costumes [crossed out] decorations by Oscar Schlemmer for the "Metallische Fest", in red: o, x, green label: 153, white label: Germanic Museum LOAN 80.49, further inscr.: 1949.231. [This print was the template for the copy print in the possession of Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge.]
    3. Private collection Frankfurt/M.,Agfa Brovira gelatin silver print, 240 x 320 mm, Detail. Verso typewritten: Bauhaus in Dessau Die Bauhausbühne in Dessau 'Reifentänze' Leitung Prof. Oskar Schlemmer (1929), lower center by another hand: foto lux feininger, red stamp lower left: Verlag Ullstein Bilderdienst ..., lower right sticker: Nur leihweise! ... Nr. 17 188 k

    Copy prints known:
    I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Inv. Nr.: BR49.231, copy print of a rastered template, gelatin silver print, 127 x 178 mm
    II. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 79638, gelatin silver print, 79 x 109 mm, Verso inscr.: Ullstein Bilderdienst NR17188 K Bauhaus in Dessau Die Bauhausbühne in Dessau 'Reifentänze' Leitung Prof. Oskar Schlemmer, Stempe: HANS MARIA WINGLER

  • [Hoop Dance, Intermezzo (between parts 2 and 3), "Mechanical Ballet"/Material Play"*. Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer, choreography created in collaboration with Manda v. Kreibig. The premiere of the Hoop Dance*, a performance of c. four minutes devided in four parts, took place as part of the matinée show of the Bauhaus-Stage at the Volksbühne Berlin, on 3 March 1929.
    At the Bauhaus carnival under the motto "Metallic Party"* on February 9, 1929, the wire curtains and figurines were the decoration on the Bauhaus stage].

    TLF: "Wire figurines and wire curtain for Metallisches Fest by Oskar Schlemmer ... [photos] were taken under Oskar Schlemmer's direction" [211]

    Scheper: "Metallic Party (Metallisches Fest) is the motto of the traditional Bauhaus carneval celebrated on 9 February 1929. In retrospect it is referred to as the most wonderful."* [209, p. 185]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus,  Bauhaus-Stage

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Exhibitions

Ohne Ekstase kein Tanz! 2011 Hannover

T. Lux Feininger - Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties. 1980 New York, Nr. 65.

Literature

Neue Bauhaus-Tänze. 1929 Berlin, S./p. 14, Abb./ill.

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