Oskar Schlemmer, Man as the Measure of All Things. An Analysis of Oskar Schlemmer’s Teachings and his Art

Kirsten Maclellan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Western Europe
Period: 20th Century

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This is a study of the life and work of Oskar Schlemmer through analysis of his letters, diaries and teaching plans. The author explores the life of an artist who remained by and large undocumented, despite his impact on the art of the Bauhaus, and his collaboration with other Weimar artists. The first chapter focuses on the Bauhaus, and the impact of Schlemmer’s contemporaries, Kandinsky, Klee and Albers. The second chapter deals with Schlemmer’s particular area of expertise, focusing on Man in relation to space, and the world around him. This was the centrepoint of both his teachings and his art, and it was approached through the formal, the biological and the philosophical. The final chapter is an analysis of Schlemmer’s work, in direct reference to his teachings, as discussed in the previous chapter.

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Oskar Schlemmer, Man as the Measure of All Things. An Analysis of Oskar Schlemmer’s Teachings and his Art