T. Lux Feininger

Hamlet - Grave-digger scene I. Performers: Lou Scheper as grave-digger, Werner Siedhoff as Hamlet

Hamlet - Totengräberszene I. Darsteller: Lou Scheper als Totengräber, Werner Siedhoff als Hamlet, (Scene Hamlet)

Repro: MAIN

1927, in Dessau
Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper right: 142, 90 x 120 mm
Prints known:
1. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Inv. Nr.: SC1974.51.9, gelatin silver print, 83 x 113 mm. Verso Inv. Nr.

Copy prints known:
I. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 79586, copy print 1983 (acetate film), detail: Lou Scheper left with babymask, Oskar Schlemmer right*
[Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer; with stage designs for Shakepeare's Hamlet Schlemmer dealt already in 1925 when in Berlin at Volksbühne-Theater am Bühlowplatz.
This scene on the Bauhaus stage Dessau depicts the grave-digger scene after Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1927, cf. [209], p. 268]

TLF: "Dance group; Lou Scheper and Werner Siedhoff ... [photos] were taken under Oskar Schlemmer's direction" [201]
Themes: Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Stage