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Clemens Röseler

T. Lux Feininger  (American (born Germany), Berlin 1910–2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Date:
ca. 1928
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
11.3 x 8.9 cm (4 7/16 x 3 1/2 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Accession Number:
1987.1100.476

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  • Description

    The son of Lyonel Feininger, the American-born artist and master at the Bauhaus, Lux Feininger learned to photograph in an atmosphere of radical experimentation. The house he lived in was a two-family dwelling shared with Lucia and László Moholy-Nagy. This portrait of a fellow Bauhaus student was taken either on its roof or on a balcony of the same building. The abrupt foreshortening caused by the acute perspective makes Röseler's head balloon upward from tiny feet, emphasizing his self-absorption and his cool detachment from the world.

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Stamped in red ink on print, verso, top left: "FOTO LUX FEININGER"; inscribed in ink on circular paper label affixed to print, verso, top left: "9"; inscribed in ink on print, verso, bottom center: "Photo Lux Feininger"; inscribed in pencil on print, verso, bottom right: "6"; bottom left: "SFMMA // 81.44-LORE"; inscribed in orange pencil on print, verso, bottom center: "[circle or dot?]", "x";

  • Provenance

    John C. Waddell, New York

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