Oskar Schlemmer - Dancer - The Gesture - 1922
DANCER (THE GESTURE) Oskar Schlemmer was a member of the Bauhaus from 1920 to 1928. Although he only studied painting at the Stuttgart Academy, he initially took over the sculptor's workshop at the Bauhaus in 1920. The friendship with Willi Baumeister and Otto Meyer-Amden, which was formed during the time at the Academy, was important for Schlemmer's artistic work. The latter pointed him to the path of mystical immersion in the laws of geometry. The emphasis on the law also promoted Schlemmer's engagement with Georges Seurat and Paul Cézanne. After his "Triadic Ballet" was performed at the Württembergisches Landestheater in Stuttgart in 1922 and in Weimar in 1923, Schlemmer took over the Bauhaus theater stage in the same year. The central theme of the "figure in space" gained a new, metaphysical dimension for Schlemmer's painting as a result of the intensive stage work. As his main work "Tänzerin" shows, his figures appear integrated into their surroundings and mysteriously exposed at the same time. Mathematics and magic form a fascinating connection that allowed Schlemmer to provide his apparently anonymous and mechanical articulated puppets with the dimension of fate. This also applies to the "Dancer", who on her empty stage, borrowed from the Pittura metafisica, obtrusively turns towards the viewer through her step position, while her dismissive gesture commands an intimidating distance. Geometric order as dignity and threat becomes clear to me in Schlemmer - long before the National Socialist dictate of order - Pinakotheken
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