Oskar Schlemmer

Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer in a photograph by Hugo Erfurth (1920)
Born(1888-09-04)4 September 1888
Stuttgart, German Empire
Died13 April 1943(1943-04-13) (aged 54)
Baden-Baden, Nazi Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forPainting, sculpture, puppetry, theatre, dance
MovementBauhaus

Oskar Schlemmer (German pronunciation: [ˈɔskaʁ ˈʃlɛmɐ]; 4 September 1888 – 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school.

In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the workshop of sculpture. His most famous work is Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet), which saw costumed actors transformed into geometrical representations of the human body in what he described as a "party of form and colour".[1]

  1. ^ "Oskar Schlemmer's ballet of geometry – in pictures". The Guardian. 24 November 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2018.