Oskar Schlemmer

Oskar Schlemmer
Hugo Erfurth, Public domain

(1888–1943) tysk målare, skulptör och scenkonstnär

Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a sculptor, a printmaker, a photographer, and a designer. By year of birth, Oskar Schlemmer belongs to the chapter ‘The interwar years’ in this site’s history of art.

Oskar Schlemmer was born in Stuttgart and died in Baden-Baden. Oskar Schlemmer trained at State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Oskar Schlemmer studied under Christian Landenberger. Wikidata associates Oskar Schlemmer with Bauhaus.

The catalogue has 16 works by Oskar Schlemmer with free images. The dated works span the years 1912–1935. Works by Oskar Schlemmer are held by several collections, among them Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Museum of Modern Art, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, and Kunstmuseum Basel. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The interwar years’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Ramón Acín Aquilué, Tadeusz Pruszkowski, Horace Pippin, Neysa McMein, and Franz Johnston.