Google pays tribute to Oskar Schlemmer with a special doodle on his 130th birth anniversary

in google •  6 years ago 

Germany in 1922.

Schlemmer is well-known for his work Triadic Ballet where the performers were transformed into geometrical figurines.
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He was also famous for his fascination for the divine and architectural aspect of the human body. He captured each and every possible movement into his complex art form and labeled every performance as "artistic metaphysical mathematics", which according to him was the purest form of physical aesthetics.

Schlemmer also experimented with painting, sculpture, but it was his creative theater designs that are most remembered, influencing future artists like David Bowie. He once described the theme of his work,

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