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Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school.
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culture · German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (1888–1943) · sculptor · painter · marionetteist · librettist · university teacher · photographer · designer · graphic artist · scenographer · costume designer · also Oskar Schlemmer, Oscar Schlemmer, Schlemmer
Born 4 September 1888 · Died 13 April 1943 · Q458816
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The artist's daughter Ute Jaina Schlemmer, who asserted that she owns the painting Bauhaus Stairway (Bauhaustreppe) or is owed money for it, obtained a court order to hold it for further investigation while it was on tem
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Dale Eisinger of Complex ranked Triadic Ballet the 23rd best work of performance art in history, writing, "A major signal of the Bauhaus movement, Triadic Ballet cemented its place in history as one of the first examples
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The artist's daughter Ute Jaina Schlemmer, who asserted that she owns the painting Bauhaus Stairway (Bauhaustreppe) or is owed money for it, obtained a court order to hold it for further investigation while it was on tem
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Schlemmer's Idealistic Encounter (1928) was sold for $1
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Died 1943-04-13.
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Which he held until 1933 when he was forced to resign due to pressure from the Nazis
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Executing settings for the opera 'Nightingale' and the ballet 'Renard' by Igor Stravinsky
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Schlemmer resigned his position and moved to take up a job at the Staatliche Akademie für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Breslau
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Schlemmer took a post at the Akademie in Breslau, where he painted his most celebrated work, the 'Bauhaustreppe', ('Bauhaus Stairway') (1932; Museum of Modern Art, New York)
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Was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the workshop of sculpture
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Schlemmer was invited to Weimar by Walter Gropius to run the mural-painting and sculpture departments at the Bauhaus School before taking over the stagecraft workshop from Lothar Schreyer in 1923
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Schlemmer turned to sculpture and had an exhibition of his work at the gallery Der Sturm in Berlin
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Schlemmer was enlisted to fight on the Western Front in World War I until he was wounded and moved to a position with the military cartography unit in Colmar, where he resided until returning to work under Hölzel in 1918
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Schlemmer moved to Berlin where he painted some of his first important works before returning to Stuttgart in 1912 as the master pupil of abstract artist Adolf Hölzel, abandoning impressionism and moving toward cubism in
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Born 1888-09-04.
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