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Oskar Schlemmer
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German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (1888–1943)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1888-09-04 ) 4 September 1888, Stuttgart , German Empire
- Died
- 13 April 1943 (1943-04-13) (aged 54), Baden-Baden , Nazi Germany
- Known for
- Painting, sculpture, puppetry , theatre, dance
- Movement
- Bauhaus
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Oskar
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nazi Germany
- Place of birth
- Stuttgart
- Place of death
- Baden-Baden
- Occupation
- choreographer
- Educated at
- State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
- Employer
- Bauhaus
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- Degenerate Art Exhibition
- Student of
- Christian Landenberger
- Field of work
- design
- Movement
- Bauhaus
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- Oskar Schlemmer by Hugo Erfurth, 1920.jpg
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- has works in the collection
- Wallraf–Richartz Museum
- Commons category
- Oskar Schlemmer
- date of death
- 1943-04-13
- date of birth
- 1888-09-04
- Commons Creator page
- Oskar Schlemmer
- name in native language
- Oskar Schlemmer
- significant person
- Otto Meyer-Amden
- archives at
- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Sources (6)
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Oskar Schlemmer, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Window image III
Window picture VII
Window image XI
Window frame II
Picture 6: The Vision of the Cathedral Builder
Window image XIV
Window image XVI
Window image VI
Window frame IV
Disciple Head
Concentrating group
Four Figures and Kubus
metal dance
Figure on gray background
Window image XV
Three heads turned towards each other
Abstract Figure
Figure composition
Roman Figures
The Figure Cabinet
Semi-figure with black lines
Window image XII
Geometrical figure
Group of three with a floating man
Still life with flower shell, leaf tendrils and fruit
Group of five with central act
Letter from Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Georg Muche and László Moholy-Nagy from District of Friends of the Bauhaus & lt; Dessau & gt; to Gerhart Hauptmann
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Encyclopedic overview
Oskar Schlemmer ( German pronunciation: [ˈɔskaʁ ˈʃlɛmɐ]; 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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