T. Lux Feininger

Night Still Life I - Three Masks with light from single light bulb

Nachtstillleben I - Drei Masken in Beleuchtung einer einzelnen Glühbirne

Night Still Life I - Three Masks with light from single light bulb

Repro: MAIN

1927, in Dessau
Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper right: 16 120 x 90 mm
Prints known:
1. Galerie Berinson, Berlin, vintage, gelatin silver print, 119 x 88 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: masques du theâtre du Bauhaus. à droite, dessin et exécution de Schlemmer; centre et à gauche: dessin & exécution par Lux Feininger., Lux F., photo Lux Feiniger, in red: x, o, white label: 16, red label
2. Private collection, later print, gelatin silver print, 253 x 203 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: Lux Feininger, Copy Photo, Cat. 16 4. Masken Stillleben in der Bühnenwerkstatt (arbeitsbeleuchtung) (Stilllife with masks, stage workshop. in working light) (1927-1928) ret. fr. Cologne

Copy prints known:
I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Inv. Nr.: BR49.219, copy print made from a photograph lent by the artist in 1949, gelatin silver print, 229 x 189 mm
II. Private collection, copy print around 2000, 255 x 203 mm
TLF: "Night Stillife with three masks, with light from single light bulb (an enlargement 48 x 39 exists [additionally])" [211, mask left and center designed and excuted by T. Lux Feininger, right Big Mask by Oskar Schlemmer, 1927]
Themes: Bauhaus-Stage, Bauhaus

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Exhibitions

100 Jahre Bauhaus - T. Lux Feininger 1910-2011. 2019 Berlin

T. Lux Feininger - Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties. 1980 New York, Nr. 75.

The Bauhaus 1919-1928. 1938 New York - New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art: December 7, 1938 - January 30, 1939
- Springfield, MA, George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery of Art: March 1 - March 29, 1939
- Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Art Institute: November 1 - December 6, 1939
- Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art: January 17 - February 24, 1940
- Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, March 8 - April 5, 1940

[UPDATE 2020: https://forschungsstelle.bauhaus.community]

Literature

47 Bauhaus Fotographs 1927-1931. T. Lux Feininger 1980 New York, Nr. 47, Abb./ill. [Vergrößerung/enlargement]

The Bauhaus - Evolution of an Idea. T. Lux Feininger 1960 Detroit, MI, Abb./ill. [Detail/detail]