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T. Lux Feininger

1926–1929 Bauhaus student

Born 11.6.1910 Berlin, Brandenburg Province (German Reich) | Germany
Died 7.7.2011 Cambridge (Massachusetts), USA

Birth Name Lukas Theodor Feininger

Parents Julia Feininger
Lyonel Feininger
Siblings Andreas Feininger
Laurence Karl Johann Feininger (5.4.1909–7.6.1976)

Professions Photographer, Painter

As the son of the Bauhaus masters Lyonel Feiniger, Theodore Lux Feininger experienced the Weimar and the Dessau Bauhaus. He began his studies at the Bauhaus Dessau in 1926 with the preliminary course of Josef Albers. After the preliminary course, he attended classes with László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. He worked in Oskar Schlemmer’s theatre workshop until the winter semester of 1929. In addition, he was an active member of the Bauhaus-Kapelle band. Just like his brother Andreas, T. Lux Feininger increasingly dedicated himself to photography towards the end of his studies. Between 1927 and 1931, he worked as a photo reporter for the Berlin DEPHOT agency, as well as for various periodicals and illustrated magazines.
Starting in 1930, he primarily turned to painting. After a number of years in Paris and Berlin, he immigrated to the United States in 1936 and created a respectable body of artistic work there as a freelance painter. After the end of the Second World War, he received various university teaching positions for painting such as those at Sarah Lawrence College and the Fogg Museum of the Harvard University in Cambridge/Mass. Starting in 1962, he also worked as a teacher in the painting department of the Boston Museum School.
With the photography that he created beginning in the mid-1920s, he had a lasting effect on the image of life at the Bauhaus. Above all, his photo of ‘Sports at the Bauhaus’ – the picture of the Bauhäuslers playing football in front of the Dessau building – still has a virtually iconic character. [AG 2015]

Literature:
· Wolfgang Büche (1998): T. Lux Feininger, Halle (Saale).
· T. Lux Feininger: Die Bauhauskapelle. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Bauhauses, Typoskript, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin.
· T. Lux Feininger (2006): Zwei Weltem. Mein Künstlerleben zwischen Bauhaus und Amerika, Halle.
· T. Lux Feininger (1980): Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties, New York.
· Janine Fiedler (1990): T. Lux Feininger. Ich bin Maler und nicht Fotograf!, in: Jeannine Fiedler (Hg.): Fotografie am Bauhaus, Berlin, S. 44–53.
· Ulrich Luckhardt (2010): Welten-Segler. T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag, Kiel.
· Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (2001): Feininger. Eine Künstlerfamilie, Ostfildern-Ruit.