T. Lux Feininger

Building problems (A-B-C-Construction)* IV. Performers: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer

Bauprobleme (A-B-C-Bau) IV. Darsteller: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer, Tanzgruppe mit Masken und geometrische Requisiten, Dance group with masks and geometrical props

Building problems (A-B-C-Construction)* IV. 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: (c) T. Lux Feininger Collective Stage Improvization, in red: x, o, in black: o, green label: 155, white label: Germanic Museum LOAN 106.49, further inscr.: 106.49, 1949.244, and Inv. Nr.
2. Private collection, vintage, gelatin silver print, 100 x 128 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: "danse des Formes" (Schlemmer) Lux Feininger, and Inv. Nr.

Copy prints known:
I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Anonymous Gift, Inv. Nr.: BR49.244, copy print made from a photograph lent by the artist in 1949, gelatin silver print, 117 x 167 mm
[In 1929 the second of the Building block games, 'Building problems', has its premiere under the title 'A-B-C-Construction' at the 'Metallic Party', which is the motto of the Bauhaus Carneval of 9 February 1929; Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer.]

Scheper: "Three masked dancers perform this show of nine minutes under consistent lighting. ... All ... actions are performed with so deep almost solemn severity that the subversive ironic of the play reveales only gradually."* [209, p. 193]

TLF: "... [photos] were taken under Oskar Schlemmer's direction" [201]
Themes: Bauhaus-Stage, Bauhaus

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Building problems (A-B-C-Construction)* IV. Performers: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer

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