Inscr. lower right: LUX FEININGER "the man who was thursday" by G.K. Chesterton. 4
[Three students of the stage-class at the Bauhaus Dessau - Hermann Clemens Röseler, Lux Feininger and Roman Clemens - refused to co-operate with the progressive 'Young Group'* founded in opposition to Schlemmer's teachings by fellow students (Mentzel, Hartmann, Grosch and others), and decide to develop their own term-project. The results are displayed - as 'free works' - in their group-exhibition before the summer holidays of 1929. The art historian Wilhelm van Kempen writes in his review for the Dessauer Volksblatt für Anhalt, published July 5, 1929: "... Lux Feininger, on the other hand, prefers figurative depictions in his designs - including four sheets for Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday" - that show a "certain phantasticism" ...", cf. [209], p. 329, Ann. 453, 455]
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