Schlemmer was a painter, sculptor, stage designer, and writer. His interest in Cubism led to abstract experiments; by 1916 he had developed his own individual conception of the human figure. He taught at the Bauhaus from 1920 to 1929, first as master of the sculpture workshop, and later as the head of the stage workshop. After his art was declared degenerate by the Nazis in 1937, he became a house painter in Stuttgart and later worked at a painting factory.
Details
- Artist Name: Oskar Schlemmer (German, 1888-1943)
- Title: Profile of a Woman with Gesturing Hand
- Date: c. 1932
- Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper
- Dimensions: 21 x 15 in. ( 53.3 x 38.1 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Partial Museum Purchase and partial gift of The Robert Gore Rifkind Collection
- Accession Number: P.1977.34
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
[Galerie Fritz C. Valentien, Stuttgart, sold 1946 to];
Ewald W. Schnitzer (1909-1999), Los Angeles, and later Riverside, CA.
[Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles];
(sale, Hamburg, Hauswedell & Nolte, 5 June 1975, no. 1610, color ill., as Profil);
Robert Gore Rifkind, Beverly Hills, 1977 to;
Norton Simon Museum.
The Ewald W. Schnitzer Collection
- Long Beach, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1967-12 to
Oskar Schlemmer 1888-1943: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik
- Gaphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel, 1976-11-17 to 1977-01-31
German Expressionist Art: The Robert Gore Rifkind Collection
- Los Angeles, University of California Los Angeles, Frederick S. Wright Gallery, 1977-03-01 to 1977-04-17
Oskar Schlemmer: Der Maler, Der Wandgestalter, Der Plastiker, Der Zeichner, Der Graphiker, Der Bühnengestalter, Der Lehrer
- Stuttgart, Staatglaerie, 1977-08-11 to 1977-09-18
Works on Paper 1900-1960 from California Collections
- Claremont Colleges, Galleries, 1977-09-15 to 1977-10-15
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, 1977-10-11 to 1977-12-30
German Expressionist Exhibition
- Norton Simon Museum, 1988-05-19 to 1989-06-18
Bauhaus Painters; Spirit of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Oskar Schlemmer, Alexander Archipenko, Alexei Jawlensky and Others
- Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28
- Schnitzer, Ewald W., The Ewald W. Schnitzer Collection: Story of Its Origin, 1968,
- Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Ernst Nolte, Moderne Kunst, 1975, no. 1610 pp. 568-569
- Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Oskar Schlemmer 1888-1943, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, 1976, p. 18
- Staatsdalerie Stuttgart, Oskar Schlemmer: Der Maler, Der Wandgestalter, Der Plastiker, Der Zeichner, Der Graphiker, Der Bühnengestalter, Der Lehrer, 1977, no. 462 pp. 172-173
- Reed, Orrel P., Jr., German Expressionist Art: The Robert Gore Rifkind Collection, 1977, no. 403 p. 338
- von Maur, Karin, Oskar Schlemmer, 1979, pl. 47; no. A495 p. 225; p. 324
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