T. Lux Feininger

Metal Dance II. Performer: Karla Grosch

   
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Metalltanz II. Darstellerin: Karla Grosch
Metal Dance II. Performer: Karla Grosch Repro: MAIN
  • 1929, in Dessau
  • Negative untracable

  • Prints known:
    1. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Inv. Nr.: 84.XM.127.24, gelatin silver print, 111 x 144 mm. Verso inscr.: Metalltanz Carla Grosch Leitung foto, Stempel: Bauhausbühne

  • [Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer.
    The premiere of this performance of c. one and a half minutes took place as part of the matinee show of the Bauhaus-Stage at the Volksbühne Berlin, on 3 March 1929. The stage set of the Metal Dance is tightly limited by four metallic pillars in the back and by metal sheets on the left, right and bottom. On the latter the dancer in her metal hood acts with reflecting spheres in both hands.]

    Scheper: "Schlemmer, who calls stage lighting as being 'illusionistic', plays with the phenomenon that reflections of light on metal cannot be controlled. And he creates an interplay of the dancer with the many effects of light and shadow and the reflections of the metallic scenery and bottom sheet. And he demonstrates material properties as well as possibilities of lighting in the space of a stage..." [209, p. 194]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus-Stage,  Bauhaus

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Exhibitions

Bauhaus und Amerika - Experimente in Licht und Bewegung. 2018 Münster, NRW

Lyonel Feininger - Photographs 1928-1939. 2011 Berlin - Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: February 26 - May 15, 2011
- München, Staatliche Graphische Sammmlung, Pinakothek der Moderne: June 2 - July 17, 2011
- Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum: October 25, 2011 - March 11, 2012
- Cambridge, MA, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum: March 30 - June 2, 2012

Dance in Photography. 1999 Los Angeles

Literature

Frauen am Bauhaus - Wegweisende Künstlerinnen der Moderne. Anke Blümm, Elizabeth Otto, Patrick Rössler,  u.a./et al 2019 München, S./p. 126, Abb./ill.

Bauhaus und Amerika. Experimente in Licht und Bewegung. Kristin Bartels, Torsten Blume, Tanja Pirsig-Marshall, Eline Van Dijk,  u.a./et al 2018 Münster, S./p. 95, Abb./ill.

Der Sprung über das Bauhaus - Das photographische Werk von T. Lux Feininger. Ulrike Staroste 2012 Berlin, S./p. 42, 110. Abb./ill. 49.

Neue Bauhaus-Tänze. 1929 Berlin, S./p. 14, Abb./ill.

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