T. Lux Feininger

Portrait in Paris I. Theodore Lux at his Easel [Collaboration with Josef Tokayer]

Portrait in Paris I. Theodore Lux an seiner Staffelei [Gemeinschaftsarbeit mit Josef Tokayer]

Repro: MAIN

1933, Winter, in Paris
Glass negative, 63 x 98 mm
Prints known:
1. Private collection, gelatin silver print, 113 x 167 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: Paris, rue Campagne Ière. Die Guitarre und 1 neuer Wecker (Fotos Toko, der schön grüssen lässt, and Inv. Nr.
2. Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr. 2018/552.1-44, Tokayer Album (Photographs 1931-1939, size of object: 259 x 355 x 25 mm), firmly mounted on page 40, gelatin silver print, 96 x 167 mm
[Collaboration. Josef Tokayer visits T. Lux Feininger in Paris; while using TLF's plate camera the colleagues arrange for several portraits, Tokayer presses the trigger and TLF presumably does the work in the dark room.]

TLF: "Lux Feininger ("Theodore Lux") at his easel. 1933 in Paris in Theodore's [Spicer Simson] studio which I leased from him. The address was 3, rue Campagne Première. Through the legs of the easel is seen the big 4-string guitar built to my specifications by Mr. V. Harlan in 1929." [203]

TLF: "In this period I also received, into the small bedroom my brother had vacated, the fugitive Tokayer, an old pal of Bauhaus Band times, when he had been the last blower of the saxophone." [205]

[See below: Related artworks/paintings on the walls]
Themes: Self