T. Lux Feininger

Metallic Party. Lis Beyer-Volger and Joost Schmidt dress rehearsal*

Metallisches Fest. Lis Beyer-Volger und Joost Schmidt in Kostümen zum Fest (Tanzprobe)

Repro: MAIN

1929, February, in Dessau
Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper right: 87, 120 x 90 mm
Prints known:
1. Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr. 2018/552.1-44, Tokayer Album (Photographs 1931-1939, size of object: 259 x 355 x 25 mm), firmly mounted on page 20, gelatin silver print, 221 x 160 mm

Copy prints known:
I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Inv. Nr.: BR49.235, copy print made from a photograph lent by the artist in 1949, gelatin silver print, 159 x 109 mm
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-Stage, Bauhaus