T. Lux Feininger - Bauhaus Dessau - image-1

Lot 638 N

T. Lux Feininger - Bauhaus Dessau

Auction 1176 - overview Cologne
17.06.2021, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 8.125 € (incl. premium)

T. Lux Feininger

Bauhaus Dessau
c. 1926

Vintage gelatin silver contact print. 11.3 x 8.3 cm (11.6 x 8.5 cm). Photographer's and owner's stamps on the verso. - Matted.

The new Bauhaus building erected by Walter Gropius in 1926 belongs to the most popular motifs of German architectural photography of the 1920s. In contrast to other photographers, Feininger was not concerned with the depiction of the clear building structure of the architectural icon in this shot. With his plunging lines and the multiple reflections of the studio building opposite in the glass “curtain wall” façade of the workshop wing, he created a complex conundrum.

Introduction "From the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College - Photography from a Swiss Private Collection" see lot 631

Provenance

Estate of Xanti Schawinsky; private collection, Switzerland