Artist · 11 prints
Oskar Schlemmer Prints
About Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer, born in Stuttgart and died in Baden-Baden. He studied at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts and became a master student of the abstract painter Adolf Hölzel. In 1920 Walter Gropius invited him to teach at the Bauhaus, the influential German school of art and design, where he ran the stage workshop from 1923 until he left in 1929.
Oskar Schlemmer's art is about the human figure in space. He reduced bodies to simple, doll-like geometric forms and arranged them in calm, carefully balanced rooms. His Triadic Ballet, first performed in Stuttgart in 1922, turned dancers into moving sculptures in costumes based on cylinders, spheres and spirals. His painting Bauhaus Stairway (1932), now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was made as the school came under Nazi pressure. The Nazis dismissed him from teaching in 1933 and showed his work in their 1937 "Degenerate Art" exhibition.
Oskar Schlemmer prints: reproductions of paintings, drawings and printed designs by the German Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer. The collection includes Drachenfest (1921), Postcard invitation to a lantern festival (1922), Die Bühne im Bauhaus, Women on Stairway and Vierergruppe mit Grau.
This selection centres on his simplified human figures: profiles, heads, seated women and groups of young men arranged in calm interiors. It also includes his Bauhaus printed work, such as a festival invitation and the Bauhaus stage design. The palette is restrained, with browns, greys and muted colour, and the figures are built from rounded geometric forms.
The muted colours and clear shapes suit modern living rooms, studies and minimalist interiors, and several works hang well together as a group. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
