T. Lux Feininger

Still Life with Mask by T. Lux Feininger for the Bauhaus stage class

   
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Stillleben mit Maske von T. Lux Feininger für die Bauhäusler, [Entwurf und Ausführung T. Lux Feininger]
Still Life with Mask by T. Lux Feininger for the Bauhaus stage class Repro: MAIN
  • 1927-1928, in Dessau
  • Negative untracable

  • Prints known:
    1. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Inv. Nr.: SC1974.51.8, gelatin silver print, 114 x 83 mm, and Inv. Nr.
    2. Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Inv. Nr.: 85/23, vintage, gelatin silver bromide print, 179 x 240 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: (c) T. Lux Feininger Mask by Lux Feininger for Stage Class (erst anfragen), paper label typed by the artist: Maske für die Bauhausbühne, Entwurf und Ausführung von Lux Feininger. Um 1928 18 x 24 cm. Voll-runder Maskenkopf in papier-mâché., white label: Germanic Museum LOAN 117.49, stamp: FOTO LUX FEININGER, stamp: Copyright by DEUTSCHER PHOTO-DIENST...DEPHOT [crossed out], further inscr.: 1949.221, Fotografische Smlg - Museum Folkwang 85/23 [detail]

    Copy prints known:
    I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Inv. Nr.: BR49.221, copy print made from a photograph lent by the artist in 1949, gelatin silver print, 180 x 237 mm [detail]

  • TLF 1947: "After completing the first term [at the Bauhaus 1927], the preliminary Vorkurs, I was admitted to the stage workshop, I was the happiest of students. ... I was particularly enarmored of making masks, and, after executing several collectively formulated ideas, went over to the shaping on my own creations, keeping these, however, in harmony with the collectively established trends. The technique of paper maché was developed to a high degree of perfection. I also retrieved the ancient art of woodcarving for masks, after studies of Japanese Nô masks, and succeded in producing sufficiently light, yet substantial, masks for practical use on the stage. ..." [204]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus,  Bauhaus-Stage

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Exhibitions

Welten-Segler - T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag, Werke 1929-1942. 2010 Kiel - Kiel, Kunsthalle zu Kiel: 5. Juni - 29. August 2010
- Paderborn, Städtische Galerie am Abdinghof: 20. Februar - 1. Mai 2011
- Quedlinburg, Lyonel-Feininger Galerie: 15. Mai - 28. August 2011
- Hannover, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte/Stiftung Kestner Pro Arte: 29. October 2011 - 22. Januar 2012

Fotografie am Bauhaus - Überblick über eine Periode der Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert. 1990 Berlin, Nr. 49 - Berlin, Bauhaus-Archiv: 4. Februar - 22. April 1990
- Tübingen, Kunsthalle: 20. Mai - 15. Juli 1990
- Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe: 11. August - 21. Oktober 1990
- Zürich, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst: 10. November 1990 - 27. Januar 1991
- Paris, Mission du Patrimoine Photografique Palais de Tokyo: 21. Februar - 13. Mai 1991

T. Lux Feininger - Fotografien 1927-1950. 1981 Essen

Literature

Welten-Segler - T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag, Werke 1929-1942. Ulrich Luckhardt [Hg./ed.], Peter Thurmann [Hg./ed.], Wolfgang Büche, Dagmar Lott-Reschke 2010 Köln, S./p. 31. Abb./ill. [ca. 1928]

Photography at the Bauhaus. Jeannine Fiedler 1990 Cambridge, MA, Nr. 49

Fotografie am Bauhaus - Überblick über eine Periode der Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert. Jeannine Fiedler, Sabine Hartmann,  u.a./et al 1990 Berlin, S./p. 51, 293, Abb./ill. 49

T. Lux Feininger - Fotografien 1927-1950. T. Lux Feininger 1981 Essen, Abb./ill.

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