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Die Treppe f\u00fchrt steil nach oben und macht eine Rechtskurve. Links und rechts des Bildes sind Figuren angeschnitten, weitere Personen steigen hintereinander die angedeuteten Stufen hoch. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/content-reveal>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"content-reveal-controls\" @click=\"toggle\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"reveal-controls-open\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"ho-button is-primary has-icon-left\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-icon icon-plus\"><\/span>\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Detailed image description<\/span>\n<\/button>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"reveal-controls-close\">\n\t\t\t\t<!--button type=\"button\" class=\"ho-button is-text\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Read less<\/span>\n<\/button-->\n<button class=\"ho-button is-primary has-icon-left\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-icon icon-minus\"><\/span>\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Detailed image description<\/span>\n<\/button>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/reveal>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-4 col-md-offset-1'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1 padding-top-2 mobile-padding-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='flex-align-center-center mobile-flex-align-center-center'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot ho-sd-metadata\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center mobile-text-align-center'>\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Date:<br>1932<br><br>Inventory number:<br>3916<br><br>Object type:<br>Drawing<br><br>Technique \/ Material:<br>Charcoal, graphite and brown coloured pencil on tracing paper<br><br>Dimensions:<br>162,3 x 112,5 cm<br><br>Provenance:<br>Acquisition Tut Schlemmer from the estate of Oskar Schlemmer, 1981<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6 col-md-offset-1 color-fg-highlight-2'>\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>Who hasn\u2019t heard of Oskar Schlemmer\u2019s famous \u201cBauhaustreppe\u201d (\u201cBauhaus Staircase\u201d)? This painting is one of the best-known Bauhaus works, not least because of its prominent position in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But the painting was actually created after Schlemmer\u2019s time at the Bauhaus, when he had already been teaching at the State Academy of Art and Design in Breslau (now Wroc\u0142aw) for several years. This is revealed by a full-size preparatory drawing in the collection of the Bauhaus-Archiv. It is dated 4 September 1932 and was created as a tribute to the Bauhaus, whose closure had just been ratified by the town council in Dessau a few days earlier. The drawing also documents Schlemmer\u2019s working process for his famous painting. Done in charcoal and graphite, it already captures all the essential elements that Schlemmer subsequently transferred to the canvas: the staggered placement of the figures, the staircase and the characteristic glass wall, with which Schlemmer unmistakably locates the scene in the Dessau Bauhaus building.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who hasn\u2019t heard of Oskar Schlemmer\u2019s famous \u201cBauhaustreppe\u201d (\u201cBauhaus Staircase\u201d)? This painting is one of the best-known Bauhaus works, not least because of its prominent position in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But the painting was actually created after Schlemmer\u2019s time at the Bauhaus, when he had already been teaching at the State Academy of Art and Design in Breslau (now Wroc\u0142aw) for several years. This is revealed by a full-size preparatory drawing in the collection of the Bauhaus-Archiv. It is dated 4 September 1932 and was created as a tribute to the Bauhaus, whose closure had just been ratified by the town council in Dessau a few days earlier. The drawing also documents Schlemmer\u2019s working process for his famous painting. Done in charcoal and graphite, it already captures all the essential elements that Schlemmer subsequently transferred to the canvas: the staggered placement of the figures, the staircase and the characteristic glass wall, with which Schlemmer unmistakably locates the scene in the Dessau Bauhaus building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10812,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ho_image_focal_point":"","footnotes":""},"artist_taxonomy":[139],"collection_type":[],"class_list":["post-26478","object","type-object","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist_taxonomy-oskar-schlemmer-en"],"acf":{"seo_titel":"","keywords":"","noindex":false,"redirect":"","short_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/object\/26478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/object"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/object"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/object\/26478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26487,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/object\/26478\/revisions\/26487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_taxonomy?post=26478"},{"taxonomy":"collection_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection_type?post=26478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}