T. Lux Feininger

The sisters Mirzel and Liesel Henneberger

Die Schwestern Mirzel und Liesel Henneberger

Repro: MAIN

1930-1931, in Dessau
Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper right: 166, 90 x 120 mm
Prints known:
1. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. nr.: 7981, gelatin silver print, 180 x 238 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: Photo Lux Feininger, in red: x, o, lower left: 81.2.3.4 Lore, lower right blue stamp: BAUHAUS-ARCHIV, and Inv. Nr.
2. Private collection, contact print from repronegative, gelatin silver print, 203 x 253 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: Lux Feininger, copy photo, Cat. 166 (Die Schwestern Mirzel und Liesel Henneberger auf dem Bauhaus Dach (the sisters " " " on the Bauhaus roof) (1930-1931)
3. Privatsammlung, later print, gelatin silver print, 203 x 255 mm
TLF: "… I had fallen in love as violently as it was sudden and unexpected (I had known the girl as a fellow student in the weaving shop for a year) … but as it remained one-sided its effect was, to enhance my romanticism. … But to this day I cannot see the girl’s photograph without a distinct tremor. In my photograph she appears together with her sister, who was visiting her; she is looking at the camera and, since I was holding it, at me; her sister, on the other hand, is peering ahead as if she were trying to discern something as yet too far distant to read clearly." [205]

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Themes: Bauhaus