T. Lux Feininger

T. Lux Feinger wearing a silk tophat and playing his banjo [Authorship uncertain]

T. Lux Feinger trägt einen seidenen Zylinder und spielt sein Banjo [Urheberschaft unklar]

T. Lux Feinger wearing a silk tophat and playing his banjo [Authorship uncertain]

Repro: MAIN

1928-1929, in Dessau
Negative untracable
Prints known:
1. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Inv. Nr.: 84.XP.124.27, gelatin silver print, 229 x 175 mm. Verso inscr.: 2, Stempel: Deutschen Photo-Dienst, Stempel: Lux Feininger
2. NN, auctioned at Lempertz Köln 2021, gelatin silver print, 237 x 177 mm. Verso lower right: 9 [circled]

Copy prints known:
I. Private collection, later print, Kodak paper, 254 x 203 mm. Verso inscr.: 84.XP.124.27, 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 to the Getty: "Not by me."]

TLF: "[Photo] Not by me. T. Lux Feininger wearing silk hat playing his banjo. About 1929" [215]
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Themes: Self, 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