Three Heads, Superimposed (Drei Köpfe, ineinander) from Play on Heads (Spiel mit Köpfen)

Oskar SchlemmerWW-1920-M086812

1920·Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs, one lithographed title page and one lithographed cover·composition (irreg.): 10 x 7 15/16" (25.4 x 20.1 cm); sheet: 16 1/2 x 11 5/16" (41.9 x 28.7 cm)

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Year: 1920
Medium: Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs, one lithographed title page and one lithographed cover
Dimensions: composition (irreg.): 10 x 7 15/16" (25.4 x 20.1 cm); sheet: 16 1/2 x 11 5/16" (41.9 x 28.7 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Oskar Schlemmer

Artist

Oskar Schlemmer

Sculpture

As “Master of Form” at the Bauhaus – the legendary German art school founded on the idea of aGesamtkunstwerk, or a syntheses of all the arts into a cohesive whole – Oskar Schlemmer described his explorations of space, shape, and gesture as “a kind of artistic, metaphysical mathematics.”

Stuttgart, Germany

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