T. Lux Feininger

Ilse Garbe in the Dunes* (Girl in the Grass*)

Ilse Garbe in den Dünen* (Mädchen)

Repro: MAIN

1931-1932, in Deep
Negative untracable
Prints known:
1. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Inv. Nr.: 84.XM.176.4, gelatin silver print, 178 x 232 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: Mädchen Lux Feininger, further inscr.: 1928, and Inv. Nr.

Copy prints known:
I. Private collection, gelatin silver print, 179 x 242 mm. Verso inscr.: 84./.XM.176.4 Feininger, T. Lux,
TLF: "[Photo] By me. Approximately 1932" [215]

TLF: "... Ilse was the daughter of a family that Laurence knew (and possibly lodged with) while staying at the Berlin University ... [Here she] visits in Deep 1931 or '32" [203]

Lyonel Feininger to Ilse Garbe, letter from West-Deep, 28.7.1934: "Dear Ilse! We've enjoyed beautiful weeks with boys; first came Lux, in May. My, did he look skinny! but whatever did happen to him? A young god in bronze! ... your's true Papileo"*
Themes: Beach Life, Family & Friends