T. Lux Feininger

Masked Company I. (Dinner Party)

   
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Maskenchor I. (Tischgesellschaft), (Aufsichtsratssitzung der bauhausfasching-ges. m. beflügelten hoffnungen)
Masked Company I. (Dinner Party) Repro: MAIN
  • 1928, in Dessau
  • Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper right: 139, 55 x 70 mm

  • Prints known:
    1. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr. F60, gelatin silver print, 117 x 169 mm. Verso inscr.: "Maskengesellschaft", in red: G, upper right: Sch 1, lower left in red: foto Lux Feininger, center red stamp: die bauhausbühne dessau PROFESSOR OSKAR SCHLEMMER BAUHAUS DESSAU, lower left blue stamp: Prof. Dr. Hans Hildebrandt STUTTGART-O Gerokstrasse 83 Telefon 92016, upper left blue stamp: Inventar . Nr. F60 BAUHAUS-ARCHIV DARMSTADT
    2. 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.
    3. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Gift of Dorothy and Eugene Prakapas, B.A. 1953, In Memory of Thomas C. Mendenhall, Inv. Nr.: 2005.147.3, gelatin silver print, 108 x 163 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: (c) T. Lux Feininger Bauhaus Stage Coll. Stage Improvization, in red: x, red label: 139, white label: Germanic Museum LOAN 81.49, further inscr.: 1949.240, 81.2.3.10, 81.49, and Inv. Nr.
    4. Private collection, later print, gelatin silver print, 203 x 253 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: 139

    Copy prints known:
    I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Anonymous Gift, Inv. Nr.: BR49.240, copy print made from a photograph lent by the artist in 1949, gelatin silver print, 109 x 165 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]

    TLF: "Masked company at table ... [photos] were taken under Oskar Schlemmer's direction" [201]

  • Yale University Art Gallery

  • Themes:  Bauhaus,  Bauhaus-Stage

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Exhibitions

Ausdruckstanz und Bauhausbühne. 2019 Hannover, (Reproduktion)

T. Lux Feininger - Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties. 1980 New York, Nr. 78.

50 Jahre Bauhaus. 1968 Stuttgart

Literature

Le Coreografie astratte di Oskar Schlemmer - arte totale e teatro totale. Lino Cabras 2022 Melfi, Italy, S./p. 57, Abb./ill.

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931 - Facsimile Edition. Lars Müller 2019 Zürich / Berlin, bauhaus 1, 1929

Mensch Raum Maschine - Bühnenexperimente am Bauhaus / Human Space Machine - stage experiments at the Bauhaus. Torsten Blume [Hg./ed.], Christian Hiller [Hg./ed.],  u.a./et al 2013 Dessau, S./p. 214, Abb./ill.

Art for Yale - Collecting for a new Century. Tiffany Sprague [Hg./ed.],  u.a./et al 2007 New Haven, CT, S./p. 258, Abb./ill. 245

Photography at the Bauhaus. Jeannine Fiedler 1990 Cambridge, MA, Nr. 405

Fotografie am Bauhaus - Überblick über eine Periode der Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert. Jeannine Fiedler, Sabine Hartmann,  u.a./et al 1990 Berlin, S./p. 335, Abb./ill. 405

Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne. Dirk Scheper 1988 Berlin, S./p. 200, Abb./ill. 231 [hic: BHA, NN]

50 Jahre Bauhaus. Hans Eckstein, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Grote, Wulf Herzogenrath,  u.a./et al 1968 Stuttgart, S./p. 92, Abb./ill. 109

Das bauhaus dessau Ernő (Ernst) Kállai 1929 Basel, S./p. 13, Abb./ill.

Bauhaus - Januar. 1929 Dessau, S./p. 24, Abb./ill.

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