Oskar Schlemmer: the human figure

Oskar Schlemmer (4 September 1888 – 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school.
He became known internationally with the première of his 'Triadisches Ballett' in Stuttgart in 1922. His work deals mainly with the problematic of the figure in space. People, typically stylised faceless female figures, were predominant in his painting.
Schlemmer's ideas on art were challenging even for a movement as progressive as the Bauhaus. Still, his work was widely exhibited both in Germany and outside the country. He rejected the pure abstraction, retaining a sense of the human instead, not in the emotional sense but in view of the physical structure of the human being. 

Oskar Schlemmer, Bauhaus, Berlin,