T. Lux Feininger

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

   
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Treppenwitz-Pantomime III. Darsteller: Andor Weininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hermann C. Röseler, Werner Siedhoff
Staircase Wit* (l’esprit d’escalier) III. Performers: Andor Weininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hermann C. Röseler, Werner Siedhoff Repro: MAIN
  • 1927, in Dessau
  • Negative untracable

  • Prints known:
    1. Private collection, auctioned by Sotheby's Paris, The Swiss Neumann-Hug Collection, Dec. 4, 2020, Lot 13, silver bromide print laminated on cardboard, 108 x 80 mm (cardboard mount: 115 x 93 mm). Verso on the mount stamped: herbert bayer, lower left: JB 60

    Copy prints known:
    I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Gift of Herbert Bayer, Inv. Nr.: BR48.123, copy print around 1948, inverted, gelatin silver print, 246 x 173 mm
    II. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: F8233/1, gelatin silver print, 240 x 180 mm. Verso inscr. upper center: v.l. O. Schlemmer H. Röseler W. Siedhoff, lower center: Abzug 1985 Knud Petersen nach F 8233 Foto: Lux Feininger, lower left blue stamp: BAUHAUS-ARCHIV, and Inv. Nr.
    III. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: F8946, reprint 1950ies, inverted, gelatin silver print, 172 x 122 mm. Verso inscr.: Bauhaus-Bühnen-Werkstatt (gestellte Aufnahme) Photo Lux Feininger, center: 458, 426, 468a, 6297 23, 147B 230H, 35/50, lower center: (Negativ Busch-Reisinger-Museum), vertical left stamp: HANS MARIA WINGLER, lower right blue stamp: BAUHAUS-ARCHIV, and Inv. Nr.

  • [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)]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus-Stage,  Bauhaus

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Exhibitions

Neupräsentation/Ständige Ausstellung 2015. 2015 Berlin

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

Photography at the Bauhaus. Jeannine Fiedler 1990 Cambridge, MA, Nr. 401

Fotografie am Bauhaus - Überblick über eine Periode der Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert. Jeannine Fiedler, Sabine Hartmann,  u.a./et al 1990 Berlin, S./p. 149, 334, Abb./ill. 401

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

Das Bauhaus - Weimar, Dessau, Berlin 1919-1933. Hans M. Wingler 1968 Köln, S./p. 446, Abb./ill. (Treppe n. r., 1925-29, NN)

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