Oskar Schlemmer

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German painter, sculptor, choreographer and stage designer. After the death of his parents he lived with his sister at Göppingen, and in Stuttgart from 1903 to ...

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Figurenplan KI (Figure design KI) / Neue Europaeische Graphik I
Object type
print
portfolio

Museum number

1942,1010.30.12

Title (object)
Figurenplan KI (Figure design KI)
Title (series)
Neue Europaeische Graphik I

Description

Schematized abstraction of human figures. 1921 Lithograph, printed on yellow paper

Producer name
Print made by: Oskar Schlemmer

School/style
German

Date
1921

Materials
paper

Technique
lithograph

Dimensions
Height: 397 millimetres (max.)
Width: 175 millimetres (max.)

Inscriptions


Inscription ContentSigned in pencil lower right. Bears Bauhaus blindstamp.

Curator's comments

See Curator's Comment for 1942,1010.30.1.



Exhibition history

1984/5 Sept-Jan, BM, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', no. 209
1991/2, BM, 'Collecting the Twentieth Century' . . .
2014, British Museum exhibition, 'Germany' PROMISED



Acquisition name
Donated by: Erich Goeritz


Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer was born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1888. This lithograph shows abstract human figures http://ow.ly/B0Fh5

1942,1010.30.12







A vase of gladiolus and dalias (1925),Porczyński Gallery, Warsaw
Oskar Schlemmer
Born 4 September 1888
Stuttgart
Died 13 April 1943 (aged 54)
Baden-Baden
Nationality German
Known for Painting, Sculpture, Puppetry,Theatre, Dance
Movement Bauhaus