T. Lux Feininger

Stage workshop - Outdoor meeting. Oskar Schlemmer, Fritz Winter, Eddie Collein, Clemens Röseler

   

Bühnenwerkstatt - Besprechung im Freien. Oskar Schlemmer, Fritz Winter, Eddie Collein, Clemens Röseler
Stage workshop - Outdoor meeting. Oskar Schlemmer, Fritz Winter, Eddie Collein, Clemens Röseler Repro: MAIN
  • 1928, in Dessau
  • Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper right: 15, 120 x 90 mm

  • Prints known:
    1. Privatsammlung, vintage, gelatin silver print, 115 x 87 mm. Verso postcard, stamped Dessau 5.7.1928: "An Herrn L. Feininger bei Herrn Wilcke West=Deep Bez. Stettin / Dear Laddie, We had a few quite horrible hot days, and so I quite do hope you had quite a fine too: But since last night we had quite a lot of quite strong thunderstorms and quite a lot of quite much more heavy rain than ought to be allowed by police-force. Our feast will be a Lala-paloosa; and whats more, it will be next Sat., so that I’ll join you not later. I can Wedn. for the latest. I got 5 quid from Frankfurt to-day. Cordially Lux"
    2. Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Inv. Nr.: 85/12, vintage, gelatin silver bromide print, 238 x 177 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: T. Lux Feininger., paper label typed by the artist: Bühnenwerkstatt-Besprechung im Freien. Um 1928 24 x 18 cm. Oskar Schlemmer im Vordergrund; dahinter, l. nach r.: Fritz Winter, Eddie Collein, Clemens Röseler., further inscr.: Fotografische Smlg / Museum Folkwang, 85/12

    Copy prints known:
    I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Inv. Nr.: BR49.223, copy print made from a photograph lent by the artist in 1949, gelatin silver print, 162 x 119 mm

  • TLF: "Outdoor meetin of stage class (Oskar Schlemmer in foreground)" [201, behind O.S., from left: Fritz Winter, Eddie Collein, Clemens Röseler]

    TLF 26.07.1983:"[Photo] number 65 [in: bauhaus Photographie, Arles 1983] is also by me, and it may be seen as one of my most known photos. Oskar Schlemmer, when I presented him this picture with great pride, was très ému. 'Ha - N A ! Seh' ich s o aus?!'"* [216]

    TLF: "Of [Oskar Schlemmer] I have a good candid shot, taken during a group critique of the stage work-shop, and a famous ... shot of the back of his head, which, when he first saw it, drew a cry of pain from my model’s lips: “Ha-na! – seh’ ich so aus?!” (the first syllables are a favourite exclamation; the rest signifies: Is that what I look like?)." [205]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus-Stage Bauhaus

Exhibitions

Welten-Segler - T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag, Werke 1929-1942. 2010 Kiel - Kiel, Kunsthalle zu Kiel: 5. Juni - 29. August 2010
- Paderborn, Städtische Galerie am Abdinghof: 20. Februar - 1. Mai 2011
- Quedlinburg, Lyonel-Feininger Galerie: 15. Mai - 28. August 2011
- Hannover, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte/Stiftung Kestner Pro Arte: 29. October 2011 - 22. Januar 2012

Bauhaus Photographie. 1983 Arles, Nr. 65 - Arles, Musée Réattu, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie: July 7 - September 30, 1983
- Paris, MAM Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris: February, March, April 1984

T. Lux Feininger - Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties. 1980 New York, Nr. 20.

Film und Foto der zwanziger Jahre - Eine Betrachtung der Int. Werkbundausstellung "Film und Foto" [FiFo] 1929. 1979 Stuttgart - Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, 17. Mai - 8. Juli 1979
- Essen, Museum Folkwang: 5. August - 9. September 1979
- Berlin, Werkbund-Archiv: 28. September - 11. November 1979
- Zürich, Kunsthaus: 24. November 1979 - 6. Januar 1980
- Hamburg, Kunstverein: 19. Januar - 2. März 1980

Literature

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931 - Facsimile Edition. Lars Müller 2019 Zürich / Berlin, bauhaus 2, 1929

Der Sprung über das Bauhaus - Das photographische Werk von T. Lux Feininger. Ulrike Staroste 2012 Berlin, S./p. 90, 105. Abb./ill. 8.

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. 31. Abb./ill.

Fotografie am Bauhaus - Überblick über eine Periode der Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert. Jeannine Fiedler, Sabine Hartmann,  u.a./et al 1990 Berlin, S./p. 221, 328, Abb./ill. 346

Bauhaus Photography. Egidio Marzona [Hg./ed.], Roswitha Fricke (Hg./ed.), Eugene Prakapas 1985 Cambridge, MA, S./p. 140

Bauhaus Photographie. Christian Bouqueret 1983 Arles, Nr. 65

Bauhaus Fotografie. Roswitha Fricke (Hg./ed.), Ernő (Ernst) Kállai, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Peterhans, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart 1982 Düsseldorf, S./p. 144 [Bauhaus 1929]

47 Bauhaus Fotographs 1927-1931. T. Lux Feininger 1980 New York, Nr. 20. Abb./ill.

Film und Foto der zwanziger Jahre - Eine Betrachtung der Int. Werkbundausstellung "Film und Foto" [FiFo], 1929. Ute Eskildsen [Hg./ed.], Jan-Christopher Horak [Hg./ed.], T. Lux Feininger, Tilman Osterwold,  u.a./et al 1979 Stuttgart, S./p. 213, Abb./ill.

Es kommt der neue Fotograf. Werner Gräff 1929 Berlin, S./p. 52, Abb./ill., Detail

Bauhaus - April-Juni. 1929 Dessau, Titel/title

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