Oskar Schlemmer - Three Figures with Furniture like Forms - 1929
At the Bauhaus, where Schlemmer led the sculpture and later the theater workshops from 1921 to 1929, his devotion to figuration distinguished him from colleagues who were exploring pure abstraction. In his influential Bauhaus course “Man,” he analyzed measure, proportion, movement, gesture, and the relationships between human figures and their environments. In his own work, Schlemmer developed a simplified, geometrical figure that he brought into dialogue with architectural space in the form of relief sculptures, costumed dancers on a stage, and painted figures in dreamlike interiors. Composed of spheres and cylinders, the three figures here occupy an ambiguous space that suggests a stairway in the way they seem to ascend, descend, recede, and advance. The simplification of form and analysis of function that informed Schlemmer’s work were also key concepts for many others at the Bauhaus, who applied these principles to their designs for architecture, furniture, and household objects - The Harvard Art Museum
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