T. Lux Feininger

Form Dance I. Performers: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer

   
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Formentanz I. Darsteller: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer
Form Dance I. Performers: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer Repro: MAIN
  • 1929, in Dessau
  • Glass negative, 90 x 118 mm

  • Prints known:
    1. Private collection, vintage, gelatin silver print, 100 x 133 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: répétition de la "Danse des Formes [crossed out] gestes" 1928 photo Lux Feininger., in red: x, o, in black: o, green label: 156, and Inv. Nr.
    2. Private collection, vintage, gelatin silver print, 100 x 132 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: (c) T. Lux Feininger Collective Stage Dance, white label: Germanic Museum LOAN 103.49, further inscr.: 103.49, 1949.228, and Inv. Nr.

    Copy prints known:
    I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Inv. Nr.: BR49.228, copy print made from a photograph lent by the artist in 1949, gelatin silver print, 110 x 158 mm

  • [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.]

    Schlemmer: "now we give them basic tools like sphere, club, stick and bar, and let use them and move, and thus a performance will emerge that we call 'form dance (formentanz)'"* [210, p. 3]

    Scheper: "The 'fixation of constructive compositions' leads to eight 'living pictures' - altogether performed within one and a half minutes - during which the performers create a connection with the space inside the stage while inter-acting and while 'adapting the force of ego-motion of their various tools'**."* [209, S. 188, **O. Schlemmer, Bühnenelemente, 1931]

    TLF: "[Photos] were taken under the direction of Oskar Schlemmer"* [201]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus,  Bauhaus-Stage

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Exhibitions

Ausdruckstanz und Bauhausbühne. 2019 Hannover, (Reproduktion)

Experiment Bauhaus - Das Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin (West) zu Gast im Bauhaus Dessau, DDR. 1988 Dessau, Nr. 223 [hic: R. Binnemann]

T. Lux Feininger - Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties. 1980 New York, Nr. 74.

Literature

Experiment Bauhaus - Das Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin (West) zu Gast im Bauhaus Dessau (DDR). Magdalena Droste, Jeannine Fiedler, Peter Hahn, Dirk Scheper, Klaus Weber,  u.a./et al 1988 Berlin, S./p. 274-275, Abb./ill.

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