Traditionally the window has been used as a framing device intended to guide the viewer’s eye to an essential part of the picture. When it came to the “Window Paintings,” however, Schlemmer took a slightly different approach.
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In spring of 1942 Oskar Schlemmer began a series of new paintings representing scenes glimpsed from his window at nightfall. Unsurprisingly perhaps, he gave the paintings the collective title Fensterbilder or “Window Paintings.”
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This gallery contains a selection of nine Fensterbilder or “Window Paintings” by Oskar Schlemmer.
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