T. Lux Feininger

Figure in Space - Choral Pantomime of the Stereotypes I (Masked Company)*

Figur im Raum - Chorische Pantomime der Stereotypen I (Maskengruppe)

Repro: MAIN

1927, in Dessau
Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper left: 140 [upside down], 55 x 70 mm
Prints known:
1. Private collection, later print, gelatin silver print, 203 x 253 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: 140
[Choral Pantomime of the 'Stereotypes', performers: Otto Rittweger, Alphons Frieling, Fritz Heinze, Andreas 'Andor' Weininger, Wolfgang Hildebrandt, Albert Braun, Lou Scheper**]

[Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer. On 16 March 1927, addressing an audience of the 'Circle of the Friends of the Bauhaus', and following Oskar Schlemmer's related lecture, the Bauhaus stage performs its Demonstration of systematical Exploration of the formal Elements for stage production, a program of different scenes dealing with dance, staging and the figure in space [cf. 209, 210]

Scheper: "The following scene is shaped by seven actors [...**], de-individualised while wearing masks, costumes, tricots and overalls, altogether forming a choral pantomime of the 'stereotypes'. These characters march past the audience and gather and sit down in the dining hall which has been thrown open to the stage. ... * [209, p. 141, 145]

TLF: "Masked Company. The folding backwall of the stage has been thrown open and the dining hall, thus exposed, becomes part of the theatre ... [Photos] were taken under Oskar Schlemmer's direction" [201]
Themes: Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Stage