T. Lux Feininger

Scenery Dance III. Performers: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer

Kulissentanz III. Darsteller: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer

Scenery Dance III. 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, 101 x 129 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: (c) T. Lux Feininger Coll. Stage Improvisation, in black: o, in red: x, green label: 154, white label: Germanic Museum LOAN 82.49, 1949.246, and Inv. Nr.
2. Private collection, vintage, gelatin silver print, 100 x 126 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: La scène du Bauhaus, montrant détails de coulisses méchaniques (ambulantes) en toile semi-transparente et une improvisation en masques blancs et maillots (?) completement noir direction de Schlemmer Lux Feininger., and Inv. Nr.
3. Private collection, gelatin silver print, 100 x 128 mm, and Inv. Nr.
4. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Inv. Nr.: I 36919, vintage, gelatin silver print, 113 x 145 mm

Copy prints known:
I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Anonymous Gift, Inv. Nr.: BR49.246, copy print made from a photograph lent by the artist in 1949, gelatin silver print, 117 x 179 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.]

Scheper: "Schlemmer explains: 'The stucture of the space is built by four colored backdrops [2 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow]; this setting creates 'alleys' and 'aisles' in which the 'through', the 'along', the 'in-front' and 'behind' is demonstrated'."* [209, S 190, O.S. im Programm der Aufführung Basel, 28.4.1929]

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

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