T. Lux Feininger

Impromptu comedy V. Group on playing field, Georg Hartmann pointing with foil, Werner Siedhoff

Improvisierte Komödie V. Gruppe auf dem Spielfeld, Georg Hartmann zielt mit Florett, Werner Siedhoff*

Impromptu comedy V. Group on playing field, Georg Hartmann pointing with foil, Werner Siedhoff

Repro: MAIN

1928, in Dessau
Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper right: 93, 90 x 120 mm
Prints known:
1. The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Binder: 900079, Agfa Lupex gelatin silver print, 84 x 115 mm. Verso inscr. by another hand: Foto Lux Feininger 1928 Bauhausfoto vgl. Bauhaus-Fotografie S. 242 DP.18, sütterlin script illegible, sketch by NN, lower right: 14
2. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Inv. Nr.: 84.XP.208.27, gelatin silver print, 83 x 114 mm. Verso yellow label: 93

Copy prints known:
I. Private collection, later print, Kodak paper, 203 x 254 mm. Verso inscr.: 84.XP.208.27, FEININGER, T. LUX
[cf. various photographies with the group title "Impromptu comedy...", dated 1928; a get-together with Georg Hartmann bare-chested holding a foil on the playing field of the Bauhaus Dessau]

TLF: "[This photo is] By me. Part of a group of stage students improvising something outdoors; several photographs were taken. L. to r.: Georg Hartmann, Werner Siedhoff, Albert Menzel... [215]
Themes: Bauhaus

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Exhibitions

Lyonel Feininger - Photographs 1928-1939. 2011 Berlin - Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: February 26 - May 15, 2011
- München, Staatliche Graphische Sammmlung, Pinakothek der Moderne: June 2 - July 17, 2011
- Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum: October 25, 2011 - March 11, 2012
- Cambridge, MA, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum: March 30 - June 2, 2012

T. Lux Feininger - Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties. 1980 New York, Nr. 6.

Literature

47 Bauhaus Fotographs 1927-1931. T. Lux Feininger 1980 New York, Nr. 6. Abb./ill.