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Oskar Schlemmer

1888 - 1943

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Oskar Schlemmer (German pronunciation: [ˈɔskaʁ ˈʃlɛmɐ]; 4 September 1888 – 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the workshop of sculpture. His most famous work is Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet), which saw costumed actors transformed into geometrical representations of the human body in what he described as a "party of form and colour". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Schlemmer is the 405th most popular painter (down from 390th in 2019), the 1,085th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,077th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Painter.

Oskar Schlemmer is most famous for his work as a choreographer and dancer with the Bauhaus school in Germany.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Oskar Schlemmer ranks 405 out of 2,023. Before him are Konrad Witz, Palma Vecchio, Jules Pascin, Giambattista Pittoni, Joseph Kosuth, and Georg Baselitz. After him are Domenico Veneziano, Maarten van Heemskerck, Norman Rockwell, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Koloman Moser, and Lorenzo Monaco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Oskar Schlemmer ranks 45. Before him are Georges Bernanos, Ossip Zadkine, Katherine Mansfield, Josef Albers, Ernst Kretschmer, and August Kubizek. After him are Ernst Heinkel, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Max Steiner, Nuri al-Said, Irving Berlin, and Fritz Klein. Among people deceased in 1943, Oskar Schlemmer ranks 36. Before him are Etty Hillesum, Otto Jespersen, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Hans Scholl, Mordechai Anielewicz, and Aurel Stein. After him are André Antoine, Charley Paddock, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Nordahl Grieg, Lydia Litvyak, and Jane Avril.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Schlemmer ranks 1,085 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Ziereis (1905), W. G. Sebald (1944), Franz, Duke of Bavaria (1933), Georg Baselitz (1938), Ralf Dahrendorf (1929), and Peter Minuit (1589). After him are Killing of Peter Fechter (1944), Karin Schubert (1944), William V, Duke of Bavaria (1548), Hannah Pick-Goslar (1928), Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1641), and Carl Clauberg (1898).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Oskar Schlemmer ranks 39. Before him are Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Johan Zoffany (1733), Erich Heckel (1883), Stefan Lochner (1410), Konrad Witz (1400), and Georg Baselitz (1938). After him are Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Michael Wolgemut (1434), Adam Elsheimer (1578), Godfrey Kneller (1646), Hannah Höch (1889), and Heinz Linge (1913).

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