Xanti (Alexander) Schawinsky - Gret Palucca im Stadttheater Magdeburg - image-1

Lot 519 N

Xanti (Alexander) Schawinsky - Gret Palucca im Stadttheater Magdeburg

Auction 1199 - overview Cologne
01.06.2022, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.200 €

Xanti (Alexander) Schawinsky

Gret Palucca im Stadttheater Magdeburg
1930

Vintage gelatin silver print. 13.5 x 19.2 cm. 'STÄDT. HOCHBAUVERWALTUNG. Lichtbildnerei' stamp, therein dated and negative number in ink on the verso.

The photograph was taken on 1 November 1930, during a guest performance of the Palucca group at the Magdeburg Municipal Theatre. Xanti Schawinsky, who was head of the Graphics Department at the Municipal Construction Office in Magdeburg at the time, documented the dancers' rehearsals.

Provenance

Estate of Xanti Schawinsky; private collection, Switzerland

Literature

Lutz Schöbe (ed.), Xanti Schawinsky. Magdeburg 1929-31. Fotografien. exhib.cat. Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau 1993, ill. p. 85; Torsten Blume (ed.), Xanti Schawinsky. Vom Bauhaus in die Welt, exhib.cat. Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Berlin 2021, ill. p. 145