Franz Sitte
Feininger (son of the painter Lyonel Feininger) was one of the youngest students to attend the Bauhaus. Although he considered himself a painter primarily, during his years at the school (1926-31) he was never without his camera, photographing his classmates, the school buildings, Oskar Schlemmer's stage productions, and the Bauhaus Jazz Band from dramatically angled viewpoints or as extreme close-ups, an energetic style perfectly in tune with the climate of visual and technical experimentation that prevailed at the school. For this unusual portrait Feininger photographed fellow student Franz Sitte through a window and in doing so recorded his own image as a reflection on the glass.
Artwork Details
- Title: Franz Sitte
- Artist: T. Lux Feininger (American (born Germany), Berlin 1910–2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Date: ca. 1928
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.4 cm. (4 1/2 x 3 5/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of Isaac Lagnado, 1995
- Object Number: 1995.580.2
- Rights and Reproduction: © T. Lux Feininger
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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