拍品專文
The present work was executed during turbulent times for Schlemmer. In the autumn of 1929 he had left the Bauhaus to begin a new position at the Staatliche Akademie für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe in Breslau. Shortly afterwards, the Prussian government reduced its support for art academies due to the Depression and in the spring of 1932 the Breslau academy closed down. In the summer of that year, Schlemmer found a post in the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für Kunst in Berlin. At the same time, the Bauhaus was being dissolved by the National Socialist Counsel in Dresden.
During that period, Schlemmer concentrated on positioning figures within a pictoral space, which he formed by opposing diagonal and vertical planes. In 1925 the artist had explored this theme in an essay entitled Mensch und Kunstfigur in which he examined the relationship between man and space (published in Die Bühne im Bauhaus, Munich, 1925, p. 7-43).
Schlemmer sold the present painting to his great friend and patron, Dieter Keller of Stuttgart. In 1940, Keller commissioned the artist to execute a monumental fresco for his home, which required no less than seventy preparatory drawings.
During that period, Schlemmer concentrated on positioning figures within a pictoral space, which he formed by opposing diagonal and vertical planes. In 1925 the artist had explored this theme in an essay entitled Mensch und Kunstfigur in which he examined the relationship between man and space (published in Die Bühne im Bauhaus, Munich, 1925, p. 7-43).
Schlemmer sold the present painting to his great friend and patron, Dieter Keller of Stuttgart. In 1940, Keller commissioned the artist to execute a monumental fresco for his home, which required no less than seventy preparatory drawings.