Oscar Schlemmer: Costume for Triadic Ballet, 1922

Modernist geometric forms and marionette movements in Oscar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet. Originally a sculptor, when he moved into theatre...

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Weirdly Wonderful Costumes From Oskar Schlemmer's Das Triadische Ballett (1922)

Oskar Schlemmer was a German artist born in 1888 and later became an important figure in the Bauhaus movement. He was a painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer; his dance works were incredibl…

With his geometric costumes and revolutionary spirit, Schlemmer hauled ballet into the age of modernism. A new exhibition celebrates his wild designs

Autoportrait, 1931/32 Oskar Schlemmer (Stuttgart, le 4 septembre 1888 - Baden-Baden le 13 avril 1943) est un peintre, décorateur de théâtre et scénographe de b

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“The greatest expenditures of energy, however, go into the costume parties. Inhuman, or humanoid, but always new. You may see monstrously tall shapes stumbling about, colorful mechanical figu…

Leaning away from the old Gothic architectural styles of Germany, Bauhaus exhibited a more simplistic approach. Modernism left out the decorative ornaments and trims which had no functional purpose. The new designs showed you can have style and cost effectiveness all in one.

Oskar Schlemmer, Painter and Graphic Artist, Germany- figures of the experiment stage at Bauhaus in Dessau; Oskar Schlemmer leads this stagehere: Clown II

Oskar Schlemmer (Stuttgart, 4 de septiembre de 1888 – Baden-Baden, 13 abril de 1943) Pintor, escultor y diseñador relacionado con la Escuela de la Bauhaus. El estudio de las relaciones entre el hombre y el espacio fue el punto de partida para los experimentos que dibujaban en los componentes teatrales elementales del espacio: forma, color, luz, movimiento, sonido y lenguaje. Los productos de la “etapa experimental para bailarines, actores y directores” de finales de la década del 20 incluyeron el “Bailes de la Bauhaus” donde la forma humana fue reducida a un tipo ideal usando máscaras y mallas. Tras haber enseñado en la Bauhaus, en la Academia de Breslavia y en la Academia de Berlín, fue apartado de la docencia por el régimen nazi. Exposición en El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

Watercolor, goauche and pencil on paper; 55.5 x 43.8 cm. Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. Born in in Stuttgart, his parents both died around 1900 and the Oskar learned at an early age to provide for himself. By 1903 he was supporting himself as an apprentice in an inlay workshop, moving on to another apprenticeship in marquetry. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule as well as the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart under the tutelage of landscape painters Christian Landenberger and Friedrich von Keller. In 1910 Schlemmer moved to Berlin where he painted some of his first important works before returning to Stuttgart in 1912 as Adolf Hölzel's master pupil. In 1914 Schlemmer was enlisted to fight on the Western Front in World War I until he was wounded and moved to a position with the military cartography unit until returning to work under Hölzel in 1918. In 1919 Schlemmer turned to sculpture and had an exhibition in Berlin. In 1920 he was invited to Weimar to run the mural-painting and sculpture departments at the Bauhaus School. However, due to the heightened political atmosphere in Germany at the end of the 1920s, in 1929 Schlemmer resigned and took a job at the Art Academy in Breslau. Schlemmer became known internationally with the première of his 'Triadisches Ballett' in 1922. His work for the Bauhaus and his preoccupation with the theater are an important factor in his work, which deals mainly with the problem of the figure in space. People, typically stylized female figures, continued to be the predominant subject in his painting. After using Cubism as a springboard for his structural studies, Schlemmer's work became intrigued with the possibilities of figures and their relationship to the space around them. He was obliged to leave the Breslau Academy when it was closed down in the wake of the financial crisis following the Wall Street Crash, and took up a professorship at Berlin's Vereinigte Staatsschulen in 1932, which he held until 1933 when he was forced to resign by the Nazis. His pictures were displayed at the National Socialist exhibition of "Degenerate Art." During World War II Schlemmer worked at the Institut für Malstoffe in Wuppertal run by the philanthropist Kurt Herbert. The factory offered Schlemmer the opportunity to paint without the fear of persecution. His series of eighteen small, mystical paintings entitled "Fensterbilder" ("Window Pictures," 1942) were painted while looking out the window of his house and observing neighbors engaged in their domestic tasks. These were Schlemmer's final works before his death in the hospital at Baden-Baden in 1943.

The emergence of artificial darkness in the 19th century, from the darkroom to the theater, radically influenced our experiences with art.

Modernist geometric forms and marionette movements in Oscar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet. Originally a sculptor, when he moved into theatre...

Oskar Schlemmer, Jointed Doll, 1922. Source: bauhaus archiv. Via Design is fine.

"Slat Dance" is a ballet conceived by Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer in the 1920s. The main feature is a specific costume that connects poles to the body of the dancer in order to limit his movements, but also to underline the direction of the movements in space. In Schlemmer's research, the...