T. Lux Feininger

Contracomposition. Composition from the Bauhaus Roof [Authorship uncertain]

Kontrakomposition. Komposition vom Dach des Bauhauses [Urheberschaft unklar]

Contracomposition. Composition from the Bauhaus Roof [Authorship uncertain]

Repro: MAIN

1927, in Dessau
Negative untracable
Prints known:
1. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Inv. Nr.: 85.XP.384.87, gelatin silver print, 84 x 59 mm. Verso inscr.: R 11, and Inv. Nr.

Copy prints known:
I. Private collection, later print, Kodak paper, 254 x 203 mm. Verso inscr.:85.XP.384.87, FEININGER, T. LUX
[The authorship of this photo is uncertain.
The Getty Museum lists their copy as being by T. Lux Feininger; TLF writes in his letter dated April 28, 1990 [215]: "Not by me". Also Christian Bouqueret, in bauhaus Photographie, Arles 1983, attributes this photo to the artist; in his letter to the author on July 26, 1983 TLF denies his authorship.]

TLF: "[Photo] Not by me; Bird's eye view from Bauhaus roof" [215]
TLF: "The images on page 11 and numbers 3 and 11 [hic] are as well not by me."* [216]
Themes: Bauhaus

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Exhibitions

Bauhaus Photographie. 1983 Arles, Nr. 11 - Arles, Musée Réattu, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie: July 7 - September 30, 1983
- Paris, MAM Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris: February, March, April 1984

Literature

Bauhaus Photographie. Christian Bouqueret 1983 Arles, Nr. 11 [hic Kontrakomposition]