Artist
Oskar Schlemmer
German, 1888–1943
Oskar Schlemmer was a German Bauhaus artist. 13 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Oskar Schlemmer was born in Stuttgart.
Oskar Schlemmer (German pronunciation:; 4 September 1888 – 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the workshop of sculpture. His most famous work is Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet), which saw costumed actors transformed into geometrical representations of the human body in what he described as a "party of form and colour".
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