[Oskar Schlemmer Seated at Table with Coffee Service at Prellestrasse]

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[Oskar Schlemmer Seated at Table with Coffee Service at Prellestrasse]

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Oskar Schlemmer

German Photographer · 1888–1943

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>[Oskar Schlemmer] transformed into abstract terms of geometry or mechanics his observation of the human figure moving in space. His figures and forms are pure creations of imagination, symbolizing eternal types of human character and their different moods, serene or tragic, funny or serious. So wrote Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus School in Germany. Schlemmer joined the staff of the Bauha

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Date
1925
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
German
Department
Photographs
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Oskar Schlemmer sitting at a small round table holding a cup. The image contains multiple exposures and Schlemmer's form is partially transparent.

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