T. Lux Feininger

Glass Dance II. Performer: Karla Grosch (in glass mask)

   
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Glastanz II. Darstellerin: Karla Grosch (mit Glasmaske)
Glass Dance II. Performer: Karla Grosch (in glass mask) Repro: MAIN
  • 1929, in Dessau
  • Glass negative, 90 x 118 mm; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper right: 149, 90 x 120 mm

  • Prints known:
    1. Private collection, vintage, gelatin silver print, 101 x 128 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: Lux F. Costume par Schlemmer pour la "Danse de Verre" (Karla Grosch, la danseuse) photo Lux Feininger, in red: x, o, in black: o, green label: 149, and Inv. Nr.
    2. Private collection, vintage, gelatin silver print, 101 x 127 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: (c) T. Lux Feininger [glass mask by Oscar Schlemmer [dancer: Karla Grosch], white label: Germanic Museum LOAN 78.49, further inscr.: 78.49, 1949.234, and Inv. Nr.
    3. Private collection, gelatin silver print, 71 x 90 mm. Verso inscr.: 149

    Copy prints known:
    I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Inv. Nr.: BR49.234, copy print made from a photograph lent by the artist in 1949, gelatin silver print, 117 x 154 mm

  • [Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer.
    The premiere of this performance of c. two minutes took place as part of the matinee show of the Bauhaus-Stage at the Volksbühne Berlin, on 3 March 1929. The effect of the Glass Dance lies in the uncontollable interplay of material and light.]

    Scheper: "... The dancer, dressed in a black leotard, wears a bell jar over her head which rests on a collar-disc situated on her shoulders; small glass sheres are hanging from the disc. On her hips she wears a larger disc with long glass rods attached... Each hand holds a string with either a glass sphere or a glass club attached."* [209, p. 194-195]

    TLF: "Karla Grosch in glass mask by Oskar Schlemmer ... [photos] were taken under Oskar Schlemmer's direction" [201]

  • Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum

  • Themes:  Bauhaus,  Bauhaus-Stage

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Exhibitions

T. Lux Feininger - Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties. 1980 New York, Nr. 76.

Literature

Frauen am Bauhaus - Wegweisende Künstlerinnen der Moderne. Anke Blümm, Elizabeth Otto, Patrick Rössler,  u.a./et al 2019 München, S./p. 124, Abb./ill.

Haunted Bauhaus - Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics. Elizabeth Otto 2019 Cambridge, MA, S./p. 77, Abb./ill.

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