T. Lux Feininger

Portrait in Paris III. Theodore Lux at the Stove [Collaboration with Josef Tokayer]

Portrait in Paris III. Theodore Lux am Ofen [Gemeinschaftsarbeit mit Josef Tokayer]

Repro: MAIN

1933, Winter, in Paris
Glass negative, 63 x 98 mm
Prints known:
1. Private collection, gelatin silver print, 105 x 168 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: T. Lux F. self-portrait Paris, 3 rue Campagne Première Winter 1932-1933., 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, 106 x 133 mm
3. Private collection, gelatin silver print, 105 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. With his note on the verso of print 1.: "T. Lux F. self-portrait...", the artist indicates his active involvement.]

TLF: "Lux Feininger ("Theodore Lux") ... 1933 in Paris in Theodore's [Spicer Simson] studio which I leased from him. The address was 3, rue Campagne Première." [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]
Themes: Self