Abstract Figure, Facing Left: Figure S (Abstrakte Figur, nach links: Figur S) from Masters' Portfolio of the Staatliches Bauhaus (Meistermappe des Staatlichen Bauhauses)

Oskar SchlemmerWW-1922-M064626

1922·Etching from a portfolio of three lithographs, three woodcuts and two etchings·plate: 12 3/8 x 9 7/16" (31.5 x 23.9 cm); sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 15/16" (40 x 30.4 cm)

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Year: 1922
Medium: Etching from a portfolio of three lithographs, three woodcuts and two etchings
Dimensions: plate: 12 3/8 x 9 7/16" (31.5 x 23.9 cm); sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 15/16" (40 x 30.4 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Oskar Schlemmer

Artist

Oskar Schlemmer

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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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