T. Lux Feininger Lot n° 638

T. Lux Feininger Bauhaus Dessau Around 1926 Vintage, gelatin silver print (contact print). 11.3 x 8.3 cm (11.6 x 8.5 cm). Photographer's and owner's stamps on the reverse. - Mounted under passe-partout. Provenance Estate of Xanti Schawinsky; private collection, Switzerland The new Bauhaus building in Dessau, erected by Walter Gropius in 1926, is one of the most popular motifs in architectural photography in Germany in the 1920s. Unlike other photographers, Feininger was not concerned with depicting the clear building structure of the architectural icon in this photograph. 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 Bauhaus to Black Mountain College - Photographs from a Swiss Private Collection" see Lot 631