Choreographer

Oskar Schlemmer

German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (1888–1943)

Born 1888 · StuttgartDied 1943Nazi GermanyWeimar Republic
Oskar Schlemmer
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Oskar Schlemmer was a choreographer, born in 1888 in Stuttgart, who died in 1943.

Biography

Oskar Schlemmer (German pronunciation: [ˈɔskaʁ ˈʃlɛmɐ]; 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 at the workshop of sculpture. His most famous work is Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet), which saw costumed actors transformed into geometrical representations of the human body in what he described as a "party of form and colour".

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