Bauhaus Oskar Schlemmer
It is oskar schlemmer s painting of students on the stairway of the bauhaus the experimental multi disciplinary art school of 1920s weimar germany.
Bauhaus oskar schlemmer. Oskar schlemmer bauhaus teatre triadisches ballett 1923. Born in september 1888 in stuttgart oskar schlemmer was the youngest of six children. On the landing midway up to the second floor hung the above canvas. The most well known and honored stage.
A pioneer of abstract art and dance associated with the bauhaus oskar schlemmer was primarily concerned with the figure in space which he explored through painting sculpture and choreography schlemmer was appointed to run the sculpture and mural painting workshops at the bauhaus in 1920 the same year that paul klee entered its faculty before he moved into the theater workshop. The anniversary of his birth is being marked by tributes and a. His most famous work is triadisches ballett triadic ballet which saw costumed actors transformed into geometrical. Oskar schlemmer the german artist best known for his association with the bauhaus movement would have been 130 years old today.
Who was the ingenious bauhaus artist the master of colours and forms and inventor of the legendary triadic ballet. 63 7 8 x 45 162 3 x 114 3 cm. It was difficult to enter moma s painting galleries without a close encounter with this seminal work. Even if you might not know oskar schlemmer if you ve seen lady gaga s bad romance or new order s true faith with their eccentric costumes and mechanical movements then you ve had a taste of this bauhaus master s multimedia design aesthetic as both music videos are contemporary takes on his famous triadic ballet that s famous as in.
Between 1906 and 1910 he studied for one semester at the school of applied arts in stuttgart and then received a scholarship to the city s akademie der bildende künste academy of art. Gift of philip johnson. In 1923 he was hired as master of form at the bauhaus theatre workshop after working at the workshop of sculpture. His parents carl leonhard schlemmer and mina neuhaus both died around 1900 and the young oskar lived with his sister and learned at an early age to provide for himself.