T. Lux Feininger

Building problems (A-B-C-Construction)* I. Performers: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer

   
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Bauprobleme (A-B-C-Bau) I. Darsteller: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer, mit Mitgliedern der Bühnenwerkstatt, Bauhaus Dessau (Kastenspiel, Kastentanz), with Bühnenwerkstatt members, Bauhaus Dessau
Building problems (A-B-C-Construction)* I. Performers: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer Repro: MAIN
  • 1929, in Dessau
  • Negative untracable

  • Prints known:
    1. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 3252/18, gelatin silver print, 126 x 170 mm. Verso inscr.: Bauhausbühne Leitung Oskar Schlemmer Baukastenspiel (Siedhoff, Mentzel, Fisher) Foto: Lux Feininger, lower right blue stamp: BAUHAUS-ARCHIV, and Inv. Nr.
    2. Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. no.: Donation Dirk Scheper, Vintage, silver gelatin print, 125 x 168 mm. Verso inscr. by another hand: Baukastenspiel Siedhoff Mentzel Fisher, Stempel: OSKAR SCHLEMMER zurückerbeten

  • [In 1929 the second of the Building block games, 'Building problems', has its premiere under the title 'A-B-C-Construction' at the 'Metallic Party', which is the motto of the Bauhaus Carneval of 9 February 1929; Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer.]

    Scheper: "Three masked dancers perform this show of nine minutes under consistent lighting. ... All ... actions are performed with so deep almost solemn severity that the subversive ironic of the play reveales only gradually."* [209, p. 193]

  • 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

T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag - Fotografie am Bauhaus. 2010 Benz, Nr. 27

Literature

Oskar Schlemmer und der Tanz Frank-Manuel Peter 2023 Köln, S./p. 505, Abb./ill.

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931 - Facsimile Edition. Lars Müller 2019 Zürich / Berlin, bauhaus 4, 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. 178, Abb./ill.

Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne. Dirk Scheper 1988 Berlin, S./p. 192. Abb./ill. 213.

Bauhaus - Okt.-Dez. Oskar Schlemmer 1929 Dessau, S./p. 2, Abb/ill. 3

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