T. Lux Feininger

Figure in Space - Spatial Lineation* I. Performer: Werner Siedhoff

   

Figur im Raum - Raumlineatur I. Darsteller: Werner Siedhoff
Figure in Space - Spatial Lineation* I. Performer: Werner Siedhoff Repro: I. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
  • 1927, in Dessau
  • Negative untracable

  • Prints known:
    1. Estate of Tut Schlemmer, gelatin silver print,mounted on cardboard, framed with textile tape, top right and left 2 eyelets for the hanging of the foto board. Verso inscr.: II Raumlinien und figur (Siedhoff) q 4 figur im raum bodengeometrie (achsen, diagonale, kreis) und raumgeometrie (verbindung der raumecken mit dem raummittelpunkt) als mittel zur sichbarmachung des raumes und der bewegungen in ihm. werner siedhoff. unterricht schlemmer: bühnentheorie", label: Raumlineatur mit Figur, label: Amsterdam 116 Kunsthalle Basel No.3346 stedelijk eindhoven

    Copy prints known:
    I. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 79630, copy print, 430 x 535 mm (acetate film), reproduction of the foto board, loaned by Tut Schlemmer to the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, 1983-1999

  • [Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer. On 16 March 1927, addressing an audience of the 'Circle of the Friends of the Bauhaus', and following Oskar Schlemmer's related lecture, the Bauhaus stage performs its Demonstration of systematical Exploration of the formal Elements for stage production, a program of different scenes dealing with dance, staging and the figure in space, here: Spatial lineation with figure [cf. 209, 219]

    Scheper: "Another performance ... deals with the exploration of the relation of the human figure to space. ... Schlemmer explains this configuration as follows: "If we imagine the reticle of ropes filled with planes a spatial structure would emerge, a mathematics of the space, which could be calculated in detail. The figure should appropriate the consciousness of this mathematics of the space and act and dance accordingly ... [with] mechanically-mathematically movements"**, since these are defined by the network of the planimetrical bottom-geometry and the stereometrical spatial lineation."* [209, p. 141-143, **vgl. O. Schlemmer (1924/25), Mensch und Kunstfigur]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus-Stage Bauhaus

Exhibitions

Still Undead: Pop Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus. 2019 Nottingham (GB) Still Undead explores the Bauhaus in relation to art and subculture in Britain. The exhibition coincides with the centenary of the pioneering yet short-lived art and design school’s founding in Weimar. It traces how Bauhaus experiments in light, sound and performance lived on, refracting into disparate fields: electronic music, kinetic sculpture, shop-window display, mod fashion, queer club culture. Spanning the 1920s to the 80s, the exhibition includes works by some 30 artists, designers and musicians.

L'Esprit du Bauhaus. 2016 Paris

TANZ:FOTO - Annäherungen und Experimente 1880-1940. 1990 Wien

50 Jahre Bauhaus. 1968 Stuttgart

Literature

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931 - Facsimile Edition. Lars Müller 2019 Zürich / Berlin, bauhaus 3, 1927, S./p. 2

L'Esprit Du Bauhaus. Louise Curtis, Mathieu Mercier, Anne Monier,  u.a./et al 2016 Paris, S./p. 156-157, Abb./ill. #13

Mensch Raum Maschine - Bühnenexperimente am Bauhaus / Human Space Machine - stage experiments at the Bauhaus. Torsten Blume [Hg./ed.], Christian Hiller [Hg./ed.],  u.a./et al 2013 Dessau, S./p. 163, Abb./ill.

TANZ:FOTO - Annäherungen und Experimente 1880-1940. Monika Faber 1990 Wien, S./p. 72, Abb./ill.

Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne. Dirk Scheper 1988 Berlin, S./p. 143, Abb./ill. 155

Oskar Schlemmer. Arnold L. Lehman, Brenda Richardson, Nancy J. Troy, Karin von Maur,  u.a./et al 1986 Baltimore, MD, S./p. 142, 181, Abb./ill.

50 Jahre Bauhaus. Hans Eckstein, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Grote, Wulf Herzogenrath,  u.a./et al 1968 Stuttgart, S./p. 91, Abb./ill. 92

The Theater of the Bauhaus. Walter Gropius [Hg./ed.], László Moholy-Nagy, Farkas Molnar, Oskar Schlemmer 1961 Middletown, CT, S./p. 93, Abb./ill. 2

Bauhaus 1919-1928. Herbert Bayer [Hg./ed.], Ise Gropius [Hg./ed.], Walter Gropius [Hg./ed.], Alfred H. Barr, Alexander Dorner 1938 New York, S./p. 168, Abb./ill. [Detail]

Bauhaus Weimar 1919-25 - Dessau 1925-28. Herbert Bayer [Hg./ed.], Ise Gropius [Hg./ed.], Walter Gropius [Hg./ed.], Alfred H. Barr, Alexander Dorner 1938 New York, S./p. 169, Abb./ill.

Bauhaus 3. Oskar Schlemmer 1927 Dessau, S./p. 2, Abb./ill. 6

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