Oskar Schlemmer's 'Bauhaustreppe', 1932: part II

• Autores: John-Paul Stonard
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 152, Nº 1290, 2010, págs. 595-602
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The second part of an article examining the German artist Oskar Schlemmer's best-known work, Bauhaustreppe (1932). Schlemmer produced this work during a period in which he was experiencing increasingly intense persecution by Germany's National Socialist party. However, rather than being an emblem of defiance, Bauhaustreppe is more rightfully considered as an indication of the “inner emigration” that was to mark Schlemmer's relationship to politics in the 1930s, as well as his belief in the possibility of a “good” nationalism, and even of an acceptable face of Nazism, in which his art could play a decisive role. This essay explores the way in which this reading is linked with the technique and material construction of the painting, as well as examining instances of its exhibition, including the first retrospective of Schlemmer's work, which opened in the Galerie der Sadt in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1933.