T. Lux Feininger

Bauhauskapelle

   
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Bauhauskapelle
Bauhauskapelle Repro: A22
  • 1939, in New York, 511 East 85th St.
  • Oil on canvas
  • 24 1⁄8 × 26 inches(61 × 66 cm)

  • Inscr. lower right: LUX; verso centered on the canvas: LUX 1939 BAUHAUSKAPELLE, inside on the lower stretcher frame: DEDICATED TO CLEMENS RÖSELER

    TLF: "Bauhauskapelle", 1939 [101]

    Private collection Germany
    Provenance: Around 1990 gift to Mr. Conrad Feininger

  • TLF: "One of the last pictures done in Yorkville is the Bauhauskapelle, one of my best paintings. Here I have tried consciously to show two sides of a world: the bacchantic, and death that waits for all." [105]

    TLF: "Next to timpani and drums the complete drum kit had Tomtoms, Log drum, cowbells and cymbals, the latter not only swinging on a gibbet but also as a self-constructed foot-operated Hihat-machine. This so-called "Frog" consisted of two rough wooden boards, connected with a hinge on one end and spread apart by a strong spiral spring on the other, to which two opposite-facing brass cymbals were mounted. A heavy kick at just the right moment produced a hell of a noise; had the pedal been hit precisely the "Frog" stayed in place, if not, the spiral spring shot him out of reach - this is where he might have gotten his name from. In my painting from 1939 Bauhauskapelle [Bauhaus Band] I pictured the drum kit completely with the "Frog". (I should not fail to mention that in this painting some modifications are made which do not comply with the historical reality.)"* [Quote from:T. Lux Feininger: The Bauhaus Band. A contribution to the history of the Bauhaus, Cambridge, MA, 1987, https://www.kunst-archive.net/en/wvz/t_lux_feininger/texts]

    TLF: "Clemens Röseler is shown twice [with trombone and banjo]; another piece of faking lies in the instrument Heinrich Koch is playing. Instead of a bass viol, he should have been represented as playing the "boom-bass", but for compositional reasons I made the substitution.
    The Bauhaus Jazz Band, led by Andrew [Andor] Weininger. From left to right: Lux Feininger on clarinet/ Clemens Röseler on trombone/ Werner Jackson on drums/ Alexander Schawinsky on saxophone/ Heinrich Koch on bass/ Andrew [Andor] Weininger on piano/ Clemens Röseler on banjo"     [Bauhaus - A Teaching Idea, Cambridge, MA, 1967, p. 23, see Literature]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus

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Exhibitions

Lyonel Feininger - Meister der Moderne. 2022 Quedlinburg

Feininger - Vater und Söhne. 2001 Karlsruhe, Nr. 52

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. 1998 Hamburg-Altona, Nr. 29.

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. 1998 Halle (Saale), Nr. 29

T. Lux Feininger - Drawings and Paintings. 1971 Cambridge, MA, Nr. 1. Exhibited in the Rental Gallery

Bauhaus - A Teaching Idea. 1966 Cambridge, MA, 67.

T. Lux Feininger Retrospective Exhibition - Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors. 1962 Cambridge, MA, Nr. 9.

Paintings of Ships by Theodore Lux. 1940 New York, [201]

Literature

100 Jahre BAUHAUS - Das Sonderheft zum Jubiläum. Barbara Hein,  u.a./et al 2018 Hamburg, S./p. 54, Abb./ill.

Zwei Welten - Mein Künstlerleben zwischen Bauhaus und Amerika. T. Lux Feininger 2011 Halle (Saale), S./p. 340. Abb./ill.

Welten-Segler - T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag, Werke 1929-1942. Ulrich Luckhardt [Hg./ed.], Peter Thurmann [Hg./ed.], Wolfgang Büche, Dagmar Lott-Reschke 2010 Köln, S./p. 14, Abb./ill.

Projekt Deutsch neu - Allemand Terminale. Robert Jourdan 2005 Paris, S./p. 54, Abb./ill.

Feininger - Eine Künstlerfamilie. Ursula Merkel [Hg./ed.], Wolfgang Büche, T. Lux Feininger,  u.a./et al 2001 Karlsruhe, S./p. 93, 161, Abb./ill.

T. Lux Feininger - Von Dessau nach Amerika. Wolfgang Büche 1998 Halle, Abb./ill.

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. Wolfgang Büche [Hg./ed.], T. Lux Feininger, Ulrich Luckhardt, Emilie Norris 1998 Halle, S./p. 69, 140, Abb./ill.

Bauhauskapelle. Patricia Boyd Wilson 1970 Boston, MA, S./p. 6, Abb./ill. [detail]

Bauhaus - A Teaching Idea. 1967 Cambridge, MA, S./p. 23, Nr. 67

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