This is a vintage 1987 exhibition catalogue titled Oskar Schlemmer Retrospective.

Published by The Baltimore Museum of Art. Softcover. First edition. Limited edition to 4000 copies.

This exhibition book is significant because it was Schlemmer's first retrospective in the United States, mounted by the Baltimore Museum of Art. Schlemmer is one of the lesser-known Weimar and Bauhaus artists. This book is a catalog of the Baltimore Museum of Art show that toured the United States. Various essays describe the social and political climate of the times and Schlemmer's work in experimental theater and dance. Chronology of his life (with photographs) is included, along with descriptions of the contents of the show. Schlemmer took the human figure and tried for a geometrical objectivity, but emotional mystery still remains. The numerous color plates, many of them rarely if ever reproduced in an English-language book, will be of interest to artists and scholars.

224 catalogued works; numerous illustrations in the texts and the catalogue, color and b&w. A retrospective: Schlemmer's paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, graphic design, and theatre conceptions.

Oskar Schlemmer (4 September 1888 - 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture. His most famous work is "Triadisches Ballett," in which the actors are transfigured from the normal to geometrical shapes. Also in Slat Dance and Treppenwitz, the performers' costumes make them into living sculpture, as if part of the scenery.

Schlemmer's ideas on art were complex and challenging even for the progressive Bauhaus movement. His work, nevertheless, was widely exhibited in both Germany and outside the country. His work was a rejection of pure abstraction, instead retaining a sense of the human, though not in the emotional sense but in view of the physical structure of the human. He represented bodies as architectural forms, reducing the figure to a rhythmic play between convex, concave and flat surfaces. And not just of its form, he was fascinated by every movement the body could make; trying to capture it in his work. As well as leaving a large body of work behind, Schlemmer art theories have also been published.

SIZE: 9" x 12". 264 pages.

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Inside: Excellent, near mint condition. Covers: Excellent condition.