Figurines in Space: Study for the Triadic Ballet (Figurinen im Raum: Mise-en-scène for Das Triadische Ballett)

Oskar SchlemmerWW-1924-M028880

1924·Gouache, ink, and cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints on black paper·22 5/8 x 14 5/8" (57.5 x 37.1 cm)

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Year: 1924
Medium: Gouache, ink, and cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints on black paper
Dimensions: 22 5/8 x 14 5/8" (57.5 x 37.1 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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