T. Lux Feininger and His Bauhaus Family. Dessau 1926–1933 (Bauhaus Taschenbuch 29)

Theodore Lux Feininger, the youngest son of Julia and ­Lyonel Feininger, was a chronicler of his family from 1926 onward. The family in Dessau included his brothers, ­Andreas and Laurence, and the Bauhaus student Gertrud Wysse Hägg, who married Andreas in 1933, but also Lore and ­Marianne Feininger, Lyonel’s daughters from his first marriage.

The photographs and memoirs of T. Lux, but also the documents of works of the other Feiningers—each of whom was a very different and strong-willed artist—make it clear that they were connected to the Bauhaus in different ways but nevertheless also shared a modern romantic fascination for fantastic and imaginary realities. T. Lux Feininger described this attitude in retrospect as an effort to combine “a fantastic reality with a realistic fantasy.” specially in Dessau, where the „Feininger House“ was not only the home and studio of the Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger, but also a central place for the whole family from 1926 to 1933, they inspired each other.