T. Lux Feininger

Metallic Party*. Profile study Georg Hartmann with a party hat

Metallisches Fest. Profilstudie Georg Hartmann mit Aluminiumhut zum Fest

Repro: MAIN

1929, in Dessau
Negative untracable
Prints known:
1. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Inv. Nr.: 85.XP.260.190, gelatin silver print, 117 x 86 mm. Verso inscr.: 6, XII, 14, and Inv. Nr.

Copy prints known:
I. Private collection, later print, Kodak paper, 203 x 254 mm. Verso inscr.: 85.XP.260.190, FEININGER, T. LUX
TLF: "[Photo] By me. Profile study of Georg Hartmann wearing an aluminum hat made by the Bauhaus metal workshop as part of costume to be worn for the 'Metallische Fest' of 1929" [215]

Scheper: "Metallic Party (Metallisches Fest) is the motto of the traditional Bauhaus carneval celebrated on 9 February 1929. In retrospect it is referred to as the most wonderful."* [209, p. 185]
Themes: Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Stage