T. Lux Feininger

Scetch Three vs. One*. Performer Werner David Feist as "Criminal" [Authorship uncertain]

Sketsch Drei gegen Eine. Darsteller Werner David Feist als "Verbrecher" [Urheberschaft unklar]

Repro: MAIN

1928, in Dessau
Negative untracable
Prints known:
1. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 12019, gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 111 x 83 mm. Verso inscr. by another hand: Gropius.
[Sketch Three Against One*. Werner David Feist in the role of the Criminal in the sketch by the Junge Bauhaus-Bühne, first performance on November 17, 1928]

[The Bauhaus-Archive Berlin has corresponded with T. Lux Feininger about their print; in a letter dated April 6, 2005, the artist denies authorship for this photograph, among others: "Unfortunately, no: - None of the photos sent to me is mine. I have never owned a time trigger. I had a very long cable trigger, about two meters long, which I once used only: there is a full-length double portrait of Andreas and me, from about 1928, for which my brother used this trigger.** [...] The carnival shots are also new to me, have never seen them before; the same applies to the "Criminal". [...] As you say yourself, it's been a bit too long."
**However, the artist took more than one photo with cable trigger and also used cameras with time release for self-portraits, i.a.].
Themes: Bauhaus-Stage, Bauhaus