Inscr. lower right: Lux Feininger, lower left label with typewriter: bühnenkonstruktion
[Three students of the stage-class at the Bauhaus Dessau - Hermann Clemens Röseler, Lux Feininger and Roman Clemens - refused to co-operate with the progressive 'Young Group'* founded in opposition to Schlemmer's teachings by fellow students (Mentzel, Hartmann, Grosch and others), and decide to develop their own term-project. The results are displayed - as 'free works' - in their group-exhibition before the summer holidays of 1929. The art historian Wilhelm van Kempen writes in his review for the Dessauer Volksblatt für Anhalt, published July 5, 1929: "... In his designs Lux Feininger preferres figurative depictions that show some spatiality - among them four drawings after Chesterton's 'The Man who was Thursday'...", cf. [302, p. 329, Ann. 453, 455]. - It is fair to assume that the water-colors, assembled under "Stage Construction", are the additional works by the artist that were executed for this occasion and exhibited at 'Bauhaus Ausstellung von Bühnenbildern' in 1929.]
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