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Und Doch Dessau (Letter to Karla Grosch) / Klee, Felix., 1927

 Item
Identifier: CC-61962-56614

Scope and Contents

The box was made by Timothy Ely. The letter deals with Felix Klee's declaration of Love for Karla Grosch, three years his senior in age, Internet: Karla Grosch (1904-1933) came to the Bauhaus in Dessau in the summer semester of 1928 to work as the head of the female physical education course. Apart from Gunta Stölzl, the master of the Bauhaus weavery, Grosch was the only female teacher at the Bauhaus in Dessau. She was born in Weimar in 1904 and graduated as a dancer from the famous Gret Palucca in Dresden. At the Bauhaus, Grosch took also part in various stage performances, as for example in Oskar Schlemmer's "Glass dance" and "Metal dance", which premiered in the context of a guest performance at the Volksbühne in Berlin in 1929. Grosch stayed at the Bauhaus until 1932. She was closely linked to the family of Paul Klee and lived in a room of Klee's master's house from 1928 until 1930. During her time at the Bauhaus, Grosch had a suspense-packed love affair with the actor Max Werner Lenz, who worked at the Theatre in Dessau at this time. At the beginning of 1933, pregnant Grosch moved with her partner, the Bauhaus student and architect Franz "Bobby" Aichinger to Palestine. In May of the same year she suffered a cardiac arrest while swimming in the waters of Tel Aviv. Obviously, Aichinger could bring her back to the shore; reanimations were in vain, though. Grosch was buried on the German Cemetary in Sarona near Tel Aviv. Wikipedia: Felix Klee (1907-1990) was the only child of the painter Paul Klee and Lily Klee. He made his father's work to a central task. He became an expert on Paul Klee's work and his artistic contemporaries and was the editor of the diaries, poems and letters from his father. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1927

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (5 collages sewn together (paper, newsprint, photographs, watercolor) in box (cardboard, cloth covered with ornamentation)) ; collages each 30 x 23 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

portfolio box shelf alcove off 2nd bedroom

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Breslau, Germany : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: German. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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