T. Lux Feininger

Staircase Wit* (l’esprit d’escalier) IV. Performer: Andor Weininger as Musical Clown [Authorship uncertain]

   
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Treppenwitz-Pantomime IV. Darsteller: Andor Weininger Musikalischer Clown/Musikalische Pantomime [Urheberschaft unklar]
Staircase Wit* (l’esprit d’escalier) IV. Performer: Andor Weininger as Musical Clown [Authorship uncertain] Repro: MAIN
  • 1927, in Dessau
  • Glass negative, b/w, 180 x 130 mm, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Inv. Nr.: I 14313 F

  • Copy prints known:
    I. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Inv. Nr.: I 14313 F, gelatin silver print, 180 x 130 mm. Verso inscr.: Lux Feininger (Fotograf) Bauhausfoto: Musikalischer Clown aus der Pantomime von Schlemmer "Treppenwitz", getanzt von Andor Weininger um 1927 Abzug vom Original-Glasnegativ (Bauhaus Dessau) 296/3, lower left blue stamp: Bauhaus Dessau Telefon 4053, 4919, 4052 PSF 160 Dessau 4500, lower right blue stamp: Abzug angefertigt von: Fotoatelier Louis Held Inh. Eberhard Renno 53 Weimar, Marienstraße 1 Telefon 2058 - Reg.-Nr. 27 Konto 4182-32-3929, lower left: 3525 N 430 DIAPOS, upper right: 45, and Inv. Nr.

  • [The authorship of this photo is uncertain.
    The inscription on the verso of the later print made from the glass negative is: Lux Feininger (Fotograf). However (according to Bauhaus Dessau) a vintage print is to be found in the Private Collection Consemüller Cologne. Erich Consemüller who had received the order from Walter Gropius to photograph life and work at the Bauhaus, executed most of his c. 300 photographies for this documentary in 1927. The Bauhaus Dessau attributes this photography to Erich Consemüller.]

    [Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer. The ironic pantomime Treppenwitz/Staircase Wit* (l’esprit d’escalier) was performed by A. Weininger, O. Schlemmer, H.C. Röseler and W. Siedhoff in 1927, staged by using figures of the opening event for the Bauhaus building on 4 December 1926 (e.g. the musical clown for A. Weininger) and by the inventive use of the new mobile stage pedestals.]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus,  Bauhaus-Stage

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Exhibitions

Human-Space-Machine: Stage Experiments at the Bauhaus - Mensch-Raum-Maschine. 2013 Dessau - Dessau, Germany, Stiftung Bauhaus, December 6, 2013 - April 21, 2014
- Høvikodden, Norwegen, Henie Onstad Art Center: May 22 - September 21, 2014
- Seoul, Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art: November 12, 2014 - February 2, 2015

Literature

The Story of the Bauhaus. Frances Ambler 2018 London, S./p. 119, Abb./ill. (NN, c. 1920s)

Bauhaus 1919-1928. Herbert Bayer [Hg./ed.], Ise Gropius [Hg./ed.], Walter Gropius [Hg./ed.], Alfred H. Barr, Alexander Dorner 1938 New York, S./p. 168, Abb./ill. [full size]

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