T. Lux Feininger

Portrait of Paul Klee

Portrait von Paul Klee

Repro: Negative, art-archives.net

1926, in Weimar
Glass negative, 89 x 117 mm, private collection
Copy prints known:
I. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Inv. Nr.: 76367, copy print by Felix Klee, album 4, page 2, film 17, Nr. 1, [hic 1928], gelatin silver print
II. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Inv. Nr.: 78679, copy print by Felix Klee, album 38, page 22, film 233, Nr. 7, [hic 1928], gelatin silver print
III. Private collection, present from Felix Klee to T. Lux, gelatin silver print, 128 x 178 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: Photo copy made by Felix Klee of portrait of Paul Klee by Lux F. 1926 in Weimar
IV. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Archiv der Avantgarden (SKD-AdA), Inv. Nr.: A 1/Bau 44, Nr 26, size not known (c.90 x 130 mm). Verso stamp upper left: BILDARCHIV FELIX KLEE F. 17 Nr. 1, inscr.: Paul Klee 1928 Dessau, Bauhaus Foto Lux Feininger, lower left: SKD Inv.-Nr.
V. Private collection, formerly present from Felix Klee to T. Lux Feininger, photo print on Kodak paper, 102 x 131 mm
TLF: "... With his son Felix [Klee] I became very great friends but only by letter in late years. As to Paul [Klee], I paid a call on him with my camera when he was 60 years old [sic] and said could I take his picture. He sat for me and I made a photograph in a very dim studio with a very slow camera and very slow plate, which I still have. It's not exactly a distinguished photograph but it's a distinguished man and quite a beautiful thing. But that's almost all that Paul Klee knew of me or I of him, except that in his letters to my parents he very kindly inquires from time to time as to what - ..." [217]
Themes: Bauhaus

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