T. Lux Feininger

Still Life with two Masks by T.Lux Feininger

Stillleben mit zwei Masken von T. Lux Feininger

Repro: MAIN

1928, in Dessau
Negative untracable
Prints known:
1. Lempertz Köln, auction 1176, 17 May 2021, Fotografie, lot 631: Masken (Bauhaus Dessau), um 1927, vintage*. Gelatin silver print, 233 x 174 mm. Verso artist stamp lower left: FOTO LUX FEININGER; center agency stamp: DEPHOT [...] LUX FEININGER; owner stamp upper left: xanti schawinsky; inscr. upper right: Xanti; lower center: Masken; lower right: (5)

Copy Prints known:
I. Private collection, gelatin silver print, 260 x 243 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: Copyphoto [Lux Feininger]
TLF 1947: "After completing the first term [at the Bauhaus 1927], the preliminary Vorkurs, I was admitted to the stage workshop, I was the happiest of students. ... I was particularly enarmored of making masks, and, after executing several collectively formulated ideas, went over to the shaping on my own creations, keeping these, however, in harmony with the collectively established trends. The technique of paper maché was developed to a high degree of perfection." [204]
Themes: Bauhaus-Stage, Bauhaus