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Catalogue
- Year
- 1922
- Dimensions
- 49.2 × 21.3 cm (19 3/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Oskar Schlemmer
Artist
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.”
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Two Gold Ball Dancers (Die zwei Goldkugel-Tänzer) from Notes and sketches for The Triadic Ballet (Das triadische Ballett)
1938 · Typewriting, pencil, and colored pencil on paper
Notes and sketches for The Triadic Ballet (Das triadische Ballett)
1938 · Typewriting, pencil, and colored pencil on paper
Abstract Dancer (Der Abstrakte) from Notes and sketches for The Triadic Ballet (Das triadische Ballett)
1938 · Typewriting, pencil, and colored pencil on paper
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Dancer (Turkish): Partner of Dancer 8 (Tänzer [Türkisch]: Partner der Tänzerin 8) from Notes and sketches for The Triadic Ballet (Das triadische Ballett)
1938 · Typewriting, pencil, and colored pencil on paper
Disk Dancer (Scheibentänzer) from Notes and sketches for The Triadic Ballet (Das triadische Ballett)
1938 · Typewriting, pencil, and colored pencil on paper
Spiral (Spirale) from Notes and sketches for The Triadic Ballet (Das triadische Ballett)
1938 · Typewriting, pencil, and colored pencil on paper
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- Oskar Schlemmer
- Year
- 1922
- Dimensions
- 49.2 × 21.3 cm (19 3/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1922-138656
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified