T. Lux Feininger

Vue d'en haut du Bauhaus (View from the Bauhaus Roof)

Vue d'en haut du Bauhaus (Blick vom Dach des Bauhauses)

Repro: MAIN

1927, in Dessau
Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper left: 136, 70 x 55 mm
Prints known:
1. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1992, Inv.-Nr. 1992.5108, gelatin silver print, 113 x 79 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: photo Lux Feininger. upside down, in black: x, white label: 136, [upside down] Margit vue d'en haut du Bauhaus Lux Feininger [crossed out], and Inv. Nr.
2. Private collection, later print, gelatin silver print, 253 x 203 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: 136
[To take this picture Feininger had to lean over the balcony railing while peering into the viewfinder of his camera, held at waist level. His awkward maneuver, recorded in the shadow below, was more than repaid by the surprising result, which is similar to the startling camera pyrotechnics of Russian filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, whose films greatly impressed Feininger at the time.]
Themes: Bauhaus