Xanti (Alexander) Schawinsky

Xanti (Alexander) Schawinsky Gret Palucca im Stadttheater Magdeburg 1930 Vintage gelatin silver print. 13.5 x 19.2 cm. 'STÄDT. HOCHBAUVERWALTUNG. Lichtbildnerei' stamp, therein dated and negative number in ink on the verso. Provenance Estate of Xanti Schawinsky; private collection, Switzerland Literature Lutz Schöbe (ed.), Xanti Schawinsky. Magdeburg 1929-31. Fotografien. exhib.cat. Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau 1993, ill. p. 85; Torsten Blume (ed.), Xanti Schawinsky. Vom Bauhaus in die Welt, exhib.cat. Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Berlin 2021, ill. p. 145 The photograph was taken on 1 November 1930, during a guest performance of the Palucca group at the Magdeburg Municipal Theatre. Xanti Schawinsky, who was head of the Graphics Department at the Municipal Construction Office in Magdeburg at the time, documented the dancers' rehearsals.