T. Lux Feininger

Surrealist study (two small wood sculptures, one suspended by invisible thread)

Surrealistische Studie (zwei kleine Skulpturen in Holz), deren eine am unsichtbarem Faden Kopf nach unten aufgehängt)

Repro: MAIN

1926, in Dessau
Negative untracable
Prints known:
1. Private collection, gelatin silver print, 127 x 206 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: photo Lux Feininger, in red: x, yellow label: 25, and Inv. Nr.
TLF: "In the winter of 1925 ... I had been engaged in building or "tinkering" with small objects and came ... to an old box camera. I wanted to photograph my "small objects", that is, to take close-up pictures in the room in ordinary daylight. Since I didn't even own a tripod and the box was really somewhat primitive, there were certain difficulties to overcome. Anyway, in this way I found out what kind of equipment would suit my purpose more and got myself a suitable 9x12cm plate camera in the spring of 1926. The box had a very old-fashioned roll film format, which was difficult to obtain. With the new instrument and new negative material, a great light dawned on me! ... Almost everything that was later published was photographed with the new camera; only a few pictures, specially commissioned by the Bauhaus stage workshop, were taken with a borrowed large-format studio camera."* [207]

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Themes: Bauhaus

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