T. Lux Feininger

Self-Portrait as Chaplin, en face [in mirror]

   
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Selbstportrait als Chaplin, von vorn [Spiegelrahmen]
Self-Portrait as Chaplin, en face [in mirror] Repro: MAIN
  • 1927, in Dessau
  • Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper right: 77, 120 x 90 mm

  • Prints known:
    1. LACMA-Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, Inv. Nr.: AC1992.197.51, gelatin silver print, 83 x 63 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: photo Lux Feininger, in red: x, o; further inscr.: Selbstporträt als Charlie Chaplin

  • TLF 1993: "... The environment out of which this self-portrait grew is, of course, life at the Bauhaus plus the exuberance of being fully seventeen years old, at which age (in 1927) I made this image. Beyond my love of Chaplin the get-up is a little remarkable inasmuch as it is but one of quite a few photographic self-portraits in some form or other of disguise that I took of myself. I had not oberseved this feature of early times (in two such auto-portraits I am wearing masks of my own making) until today when getting ready to write to you..." [204, Letter to the LACMA/T.B. Wride]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus,  Self

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Exhibitions

T. Lux Feininger - Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties. 1980 New York, Nr. 13.

Literature

T. Lux Feininger und seine Bauhausfamilie. Dessau 1926-1933 Torsten Blume, Katja Schneider, Siegfried B Schäfer 2024 Dessau, S./p. 101, Abb./ill. 44

Fotografische Selbstportraits der Bauhäusler zwischen 1919 und 1933. Anja Guttenberger 2012 Berlin, S./p. 208, Abb./ill. 17

Feininger - Eine Künstlerfamilie. Ursula Merkel [Hg./ed.], Wolfgang Büche, T. Lux Feininger,  u.a./et al 2001 Karlsruhe, S./p. 65, Abb./ill.

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. Wolfgang Büche [Hg./ed.], T. Lux Feininger, Ulrich Luckhardt, Emilie Norris 1998 Halle, S./p. 123, Abb./ill.

The Camera I - Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Deborah Irmas, Robert A. Sobieszek 1994 New York, Plate 29

47 Bauhaus Fotographs 1927-1931. T. Lux Feininger 1980 New York, Nr. 13. Abb./ill.

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