[Metalltanz].

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[Metalltanz].

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T. Lux Feininger

American Photographer · 1910–2011

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T. Lux Feininger was born in Berlin and spent his early years in Germany. He studied art at the Bauhaus School in Berlin under, among others, László Moholy Nagy and Oskar Schlemmer, yet he was unable to study photography there because it was not taught until 1929. Feininger learned it nevertheless, and in 1927 he went to work for the Berlin photo agency DEPHOT. Two years later he participated in t

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Date: about 1928–1929
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

"Dance in Metal", by Oskar Schlemmer, performed by Karla Grosch. The image depicts a figure mid-jump with their arms and legs extended to form an "X" shape. There are three metal sheets standing up behind the dancer.

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