T. Lux Feininger

Masked Company II. (Dinner Party)

   
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Maskenchor II. (Tischgesellschaft), (Aufsichtsratssitzung der bauhausfasching-ges. m. beflügelten hoffnungen)
Masked Company II. (Dinner Party) Repro: MAIN
  • 1928, in Dessau
  • Negative untracable

  • Prints known:
    1. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 3252/23, gelatin silver print, 116 x 145 mm. Verso inscr. upper right: Schlemm 1, lower left: B10C, lower right blue stamp: BAUHAUS-ARCHIV, and Inv. Nr.
    2. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. No.: Donation Dirk Scheper, silver gelatin print, 117 x 154 mm.

  • [Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer. Masked Company (a.k.a. Mask Chorus* or Dinner Party*) has its premiere at an in-house performance of the stage class in July 1928. This dance of c. 10 minutes - Schlemmer (1931) calls it a "meaningless board meeting of a chorus-of-spirits from a shadow-empire" [209, p. 199] - is performed by twelve masked dusky figures along with three puppets.]

    Scheper: "Masked Company was developed from experiments with group pantomimes, which ... had their public appearance already in March 1927 as part of the Demonstration of formal Elements for staging." [209, p. 200-201, cf: Figure in Space IV and V, Choral Pantomime]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus,  Bauhaus-Stage

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Exhibitions

Das Bauhaus tanzt. 2015 Leverkusen, (Reproduktion) Eine Ausstellung der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau in Kooperation mit Bayer Kultur.

T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag - Fotografie am Bauhaus. 2010 Benz, Nr. 22

Experiment Bauhaus - Das Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin (West) zu Gast im Bauhaus Dessau, DDR. 1988 Dessau, Nr. 231

Literature

Das Bauhaus tanzt / Dance the Bauhaus. Torsten Blume 2015 Leipzig, S./p. 19, Abb./ill.

Oskar Schlemmer - Visionen einer neuen Welt. Ina Conzen, Susanne M. I. Kaufmann,  u.a./et al 2014 Stuttgart, S./p. 231, Abb./ill., Nr. 199 [hic: 1927]

Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne. Dirk Scheper 1988 Berlin, S./p. 200, Abb./ill. 230 [hic: BHA, NN]

Experiment Bauhaus - Das Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin (West) zu Gast im Bauhaus Dessau (DDR). Magdalena Droste, Jeannine Fiedler, Peter Hahn, Dirk Scheper, Klaus Weber,  u.a./et al 1988 Berlin, S./p. 276-277, Abb./ill.

Das Bauhaus - Weimar, Dessau, Berlin 1919-1933. Hans M. Wingler 1968 Köln, S./p. 490, Abb./ill. ("Maskengesell.",1928-29, NN)

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