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The New Chess Game (Das Neue Schachspiel). Promotional design (unrealized) for chess set by Josef Hartwig

Joost SchmidtWW-1923-M118131

1923·Cut-and-pasted paper with ink, gouache, and pencil on paper

Catalogue

Year: 1923
Medium: Cut-and-pasted paper with ink, gouache, and pencil on paper
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Joost Schmidt

Artist

Joost Schmidt

Painting

Joost Schmidt was a German sculptor, metalworker, and designer whose practice emerged from Bauhaus pedagogy in the 1920s. Working in steel, wood, and bronze, he developed geometric abstract forms that merged modernist sculpture with functional design principles. Schmidt taught at the Bauhaus and later directed the metalworking workshop, influencing a generation of makers through his integration of craft technique with avant-garde spatial thinking.

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