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Oskar Schlemmer's pantomime ‘Treppenwitz’ from the Bauhaus stage with Andor Weininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hermann Röseler, Werner Siedhoff, 1927
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December 4, 01:12 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 EUR
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T. Lux Feininger
1910 - 2011
Oskar Schlemmer's pantomime ‘Treppenwitz’ from the Bauhaus stage with Andor Weininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hermann Röseler, Werner Siedhoff, 1927
silver print laminated on cardboard and under mat, with wet stamp "herbert bayer" on the mount.
matted and framed.
[tirage argentique contrecollé sur carton. Timbre humide "herbert bayer" au dos du montage.
sous passe-partout et encadré]
print/tirage: 10.8 x 8 cm; 4 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.
cardboard/montage: 11.5 x 9.3 cm; 4 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.
frame/cadre 31 x 29 cm; 12 3/16 x 11 7/16 in.
Private collection, France
Aguttes, Photographie Moderne et Contemporaine, June 24, 2019, lot 15
Private collection, Switzerland
[Collection privée, France
Vente Aguttes, Photographie Moderne et Contemporaine, 24 juin , 2019, lot 15
Collection privée, Suisse]
Hans M. Wingler, Das Bauhaus, Weimar Dessau Berlin 1919-1933, Dumont, 1962/2009, p. 446
Jeannine Fiedler, Fotografie am Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Archiv Verlag Dirk Nishen 1990, p. 149
[Hans M. Wingler, Das Bauhaus, Weimar Dessau Berlin 1919-1933, Dumont, 1962/2009, p. 446
Jeannine Fiedler, Fotografie am Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Archiv Verlag Dirk Nishen 1990, p. 149]
"Feininger's Treppenwitz photograph had everything that was contained in the Bauhaus idea of architecture: mathematical sapce, measured human movement, and emotional control by means of acrobatic performance. The picture is given a dynamic by its perspective, the bold low angle, and diagonal placing of the architectural spatial grid. This injection of dynamism is due to the influence of Moholy, who consistently applied photographic perspective to the creation of spatial impressions of this kind."
from Jeannine Fiedler, Fotografie am Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Archiv Verlag Dirk Nishen 1990, p. 150
A second version of this image exist in inverted view.
According to the Catalogue Raisonné by Schaefer/Witteveen, Duesseldorf, www.art-archives.net, the copy prints known are:
I. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Gift of Herbert Bayer, Inv. Nr.: BR48.123, copy print around 1948, inverted, gelatin silver print, 246 x 173 mm
II. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: F8233/1, gelatin silver print, 240 x 180 mm. Verso inscr. upper center: v.l. O. Schlemmer H. Röseler W. Siedhoff, lower center: Abzug 1985 Knud Petersen nach F 8233 Foto: Lux Feininger, lower left blue stamp: BAUHAUS-ARCHIV, and Inv. Nr.
III. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: F8946, reprint 1950s, inverted, gelatin silver print, 172 x 122 mm. Verso inscr.: Bauhaus-Bühnen-Werkstatt (gestellte Aufnahme) Photo Lux Feininger, center: 458, 426, 468a, 6297 23, 147B 230H, 35/50, lower center: (Negativ Busch-Reisinger-Museum), vertical left stamp: HANS MARIA WINGLER, lower right blue stamp: BAUHAUS-ARCHIV, and Inv. Nr.
Catalogue Raisonné by Schaefer/Witteveen, Duesseldorf, www.art-archives.net
T. Lux Feininger, © The Estate of T. Lux Feininger.
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to The Estate of T. Lux Feininger for their collaboration and the precise details above.
