T. Lux Feininger

Figure in Space - Figural Cabinet. Performers: Lou Scheper, Werner Siedhoff

   
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Figur im Raum - Figurales Kabinett. Darsteller: Lou Scheper, Werner Siedhoff
Figure in Space - Figural Cabinet. Performers: Lou Scheper, Werner Siedhoff Repro: MAIN
  • 1927, in Dessau
  • Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. lower right: 143, 55 x 70 mm

  • Prints known:
    1. NN, auctioned Christie's Paris, 2015, vintage, gelatin silver print, 80 x 106 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: (c) T. Lux Feininger photo, Oscar Schlemmer's "Figural Cabinet" on the stage of the Bauhaus, Dessau 1927-1928, in red: x, red label: 143, white label: GERMANIC MUSEUM - LOAN 84.49, further inscr.: 1949.242, 84.49, SP668
    2. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 83588, gelatin silver print, 53 x 95 mm
    3. Private collection, later print, gelatin silver print, 203 x 253 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: 143

    Copy prints known:
    I. Kicken Berlin Galerie, copy print around the mid 1980s, gelatin silver print, 61 x 112 mm. Verso inscr.: (m) Lou Scheper u. Werner Siedhoff, 1927 foto: Feininger "Oskar Schlemmer's 'Figural Cabinet'", 1927-28, CK Bertonati reptd in Ehlers cat. '81 #13 3 1/8 x 4 1/4, Kat. 29, CKM 170
    II. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Anonymous Gift, Inv. Nr.: BR49.242, copy print made from a photograph lent by the artist in 1949, gelatin silver print, 119 x 183 mm
    III. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 79631, copy print from the Almanac of the Friedrich-Theater, gelatin silver print, 180 x 240 mm
    IV. Private collection, gelatin silver print, 201 x 253 mm. Verso inscr.: Strip 4 #143

  • [Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer. On 16 March 1927, addressing an audience of the 'Circle of the Friends of the Bauhaus', and following Oskar Schlemmer's related lecture, the Bauhaus stage performs its Demonstration of systematical Exploration of the formal Elements for stage production, a program of different scenes dealing with dance, staging and the figure in space [cf. 209, 219]
    This photograph shows the dancers "Scheper and Siedhoff and figures from the 2nd version of the Figural Cabinet" [209, p. 258], as well as a scene "From a pantomime with figures and transparent walls*" [219, p. 3], a.k.a. Figural Cabinet.]

    Schlemmer: "... since we have no interest in make-believe forests, mountains, lakes or rooms - we have constructed simple flats of wood and white canvas that can be slid back and forth on a series of parallel tracks and can be used as screens for light projection. ... we can also make them into translucent curtains or wall areas and thereby achieve an illusion of a higher order. ... we let the light function by itself, for what it is ... Let us rather open our eyes and expore our minds to the pure power of color and light."* [219, p. 3]

    TLF: "Two dancers (Lou Scheper and Werner Siedhoff) and three flat figurines from Schlemmer's "Figural Cabinet"* ... [photos] were taken under Oskar Schlemmer's direction" [211]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus,  Bauhaus-Stage

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Exhibitions

Human-Space-Machine: Stage Experiments at the Bauhaus - Mensch-Raum-Maschine. 2013 Dessau - Dessau, Germany, Stiftung Bauhaus, December 6, 2013 - April 21, 2014
- Høvikodden, Norwegen, Henie Onstad Art Center: May 22 - September 21, 2014
- Seoul, Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art: November 12, 2014 - February 2, 2015

T. Lux Feininger - Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties. 1980 New York, Nr. 51.

50 Jahre Bauhaus. 1968 Stuttgart

Literature

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931 - Facsimile Edition. Lars Müller 2019 Zürich / Berlin, bauhaus 3, 1927

Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne. Dirk Scheper 1988 Berlin, S./p. 258, Abb./ill. 270.

Bauhaus Photography. Egidio Marzona [Hg./ed.], Roswitha Fricke (Hg./ed.), Eugene Prakapas 1985 Cambridge, MA, S./p. 223, Abb./ill. 307

Bauhaus Fotografie. Roswitha Fricke (Hg./ed.), Ernő (Ernst) Kállai, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Peterhans, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart 1982 Düsseldorf, S./p. 227, Nr. 176, Abb./ill.

50 Jahre Bauhaus. Hans Eckstein, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Grote, Wulf Herzogenrath,  u.a./et al 1968 Stuttgart, S./p. 92, Abb./ill. 103

The Theater of the Bauhaus. Walter Gropius [Hg./ed.], László Moholy-Nagy, Farkas Molnar, Oskar Schlemmer 1961 Middletown, CT, S./p. 97, Abb./ill.

The Bauhaus - Evolution of an Idea. T. Lux Feininger 1960 Detroit, MI, Abb./ill.

Almanach Friedrich-Theater Dessau. Wilhelm van Kempen 1929 Dessau, S./p. 33, Abb./ill.

Bauhaus 3. Oskar Schlemmer 1927 Dessau, S./p. 3, Abb./ill. 19

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