T. Lux Feininger

Protest Rally at the Bauhaus III. Naftali Rubinstein, Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, smoking

Protestkundgebung am Bauhaus III. Naftali Rubinstein, Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, rauchend (Bauhäusler)

Repro: MAIN

1931, in Dessau
Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper left: 72, 55 x 70 mm
Prints known:
1. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Inv. Nr.: 86.XM.689.6, Agfa Lupex gelatin silver print, 83 x 113 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: photo Lux Feininger, in red: x, white label: 72, and Inv. Nr.
2. The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum puchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Morris, Inv. Nr.: 83.158, gelatin silver print, 81 x 111 mm. Inscr. on passe-partout: T. Lux Feininger American, b. Germany, 1910 Werner Siedhoff (faculty), Naphtali Rubinstein, and Albert Menzel (Students) Bauhaus, Dessau c. 1930
3. Private collection, later print, gelatin silver print, 203 x 253 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: 72

Copy prints known:
I. Private collection, later print, Kodak paper, 203 x 254 mm. Verso inscr.: 86.XM.689.6, upper left: T. Lux Feininger Rubinstein, W. Siedhoff, A. Menzel clowning (Prakapas Loan)
[Photographed during a protest rally on the playing field at the Bauhaus building that took place when the school's director Hannes Meyer was dismissed from his position]
Themes: Bauhaus