Lempertz · Lot 13
Raum mit sieben Figuren
Bleistiftzeichnung auf beigefarbenem Ölpapier
Auction date : 2026-06-05
Published result : 228600 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 150000
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Oskar Schlemmer
The German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943), who was born in Stuttgart and died in Baden-Baden, developed an artistic practice in which the body and space are conceived as organised forms. In his formal explorations, he reduced the body to simple elements—circle, sphere, cylinder, cone—and to geometric lines whose placement follows rules of composition. His stage work gives central importance to space and arranges bodies according to their formal interplay; the Triadic Ballet is presented as his major work.
His work also extended to mural painting: between 1928 and 1930, he created nine murals for a room at the Folkwang Museum in Essen. The Bauhaus Stairway (Bauhaustreppe), dated 1932, is held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; one work is also recorded in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions devoted to Schlemmer include Oskar Schlemmer und die abstrakte Bühne, presented at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Zurich in 1961, and an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1986. For Weibliche Figur, recorded presentations include Stuttgart in 1953, followed by Baltimore, New York, San Francisco and Minneapolis in 1986–1987.
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4documented results with prices
Lempertz · Kornfeld
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Lempertz · Lot 191
Female Figure
Pen-and-ink drawing
Original catalogue wording
Weibliche Figur
Tuschfederzeichnung
Auction date : 2025-05-31
Published result : 22680 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 9000
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Lempertz · Lot 192
Abstrakte Figur, frontal
Pen-and-ink drawing
Original catalogue wording
Abstrakte Figur, frontal
Tuschfederzeichnung
Auction date : 2025-05-31
Published result : 27720 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 7000
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Lempertz · Lot 185
Akt und Frau
Aquarell und Bleistift auf sehr dünnem Papier
Auction date : 2022-06-02
Published result : 25200 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 20000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Kornfeld · Lot 147
Mädchenkopf, frontal
Oil and pencil on canvas 46,8x24,5 cm, canvas
Catalogue period : 2021-09-17
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 200000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Kornfeld · Lot 521
Kopf mit geschwungenen Linien
Indian ink on thin, yellowish parchment
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 15000
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