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Kurt Schwerdtfeger
?–1966
SculptureBauhausFiguration
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- • Bauhaus
- • Figuration
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Bauhaus: 1919�1928
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938–1939
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Kurt Schwerdtfeger was a German sculptor working in bronze and stone whose formal vocabulary moved between figuration and abstraction within the Bauhaus environment of 1920s Weimar Germany. His sculptural practice engaged the school's integration of craft, geometry, and the human form, balancing volumetric mass with spatial articulation. His work reflects the modernist sculptural concerns of his generation and was exhibited at MoMA.
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Bauhaus
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