T. Lux Feininger

Form Dance IV. Still Life with Props

Formentanz IV. Stillleben mit Requisiten

Repro: MAIN

1929, in Dessau
Glass negative, 90 x 118 mm; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper right: 157, 90 x 120 mm
Prints known:
1. Private collection, Vintage, gelatin silver print, 100 x 134 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: photo Lux Feininger (c) T. Lux Feininger Still Life w/masks on Bauhaus Stage, in red: x, o, in black: o, green label: 157, $450 M.F., C93, white label: Germanic Museum LOAN 75.49, further inscr.: 1949.226, 75.49, and Inv. Nr.
2. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Inv. Nr.: 84.XM.127.19, silver gelatin print, 114 x 175 mm. Verso inscr.: foto: Stilleben "Bühnenelemente" foto: Lux Feininger Lux, red stamp: e bauhausbühne dessau OSKAR SCHLEMMER, red stamp: zurückerbeten, further inscr.: 2x, and Inv. Nr.

Copy prints known:
I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Inv. Nr.: BR49.226, Reproduction of a loan by the artist 1949, gelatin silver print, 112 x 156 mm
II. Private collection, later print, Kodak Papier, 203 x 254 mm. Verso inscr.: 84.XM.127.19, FEININGER, T. LUX
[Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer, by the beginning of 1929 the Form Dance (2nd version, the dancers now wear monochromatic black leotards), is integral part of the repertory of the Bauhaus-Stage Dessau and performed within the program at the matinee show of the Volksbühne Berlin, on 3 March 1929.]

TLF: " ... Bird's eye view of Bauhaus stage with performance of a Schlemmer dance sketch." [215, erroneously the artist denies his authorship in this letter]

TLF: "Stillife with props of the Gestentanz (dance of gestures) [sic] by Oskar Schlemmer ... [Photos] were taken under the direction of Oskar Schlemmer" [201]
Themes: Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Stage

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T. Lux Feininger

Form Dance IV. Still Life with Props

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