Oskar Schlemmer Bauhaus Stairway

Gift of philip johnson.
Oskar schlemmer bauhaus stairway. Oskar schlemmer 4 september 1888 13 april 1943 was a german painter sculptor designer and choreographer associated with the bauhaus school. Bauhaus stairway was created in 1932 by oskar schlemmer in constructivism style. Oskar schlemmer 1888 1943. Lux feininger museum of modern art new york.
Published on fri 11 oct 2002 21 13 edt view the work online portrait of the week archive. His most famous work is triadisches ballett triadic ballet which saw costumed actors transformed into geometrical. The bauhaus stairway oskar schlemmer 1932 jonathan jones. It was difficult to enter moma s painting galleries without a close encounter with this seminal work.
The same year the performance officially debuted on a stage in stuttgart germany he also designed a logo for the institution a series of lines rectangles and squares that made up the profile of a face encircled by blocky letters that read staatliches bauhaus weimar the. Das triadisches ballett was but one of schlemmer s many contributions to german art and the bauhaus school. 63 7 8 x 45 162 3 x 114 3 cm. Oskar schlemmer bauhaus stairway 1932.
Oskar schlemmer 1932 modelled on the photograph by t. Oskar schlemmer art market. It was a beacon signaling to every moma visitor just how much the museum s modernist. Oskar schlemmer studied applied graphic design at a marquetry workshop in stuttgart from 1903 to 1905.
Before the injunction was served on the neue nationalgalerie bauhaus stairway had already been packed and shipped to new york. It is oskar schlemmer s painting of students on the stairway of the bauhaus the experimental multi disciplinary art school of 1920s weimar germany. In 1923 he was hired as master of form at the bauhaus theatre workshop after working at the workshop of sculpture.
