Embrace II
1942
Oskar Schlemmer is famous for making people look like geometric robots during his Bauhaus days, but this 1942 piece, 'Umarmung II' (Embrace II), is a total plot twist. Created just a year before his death during the darkness of World War II, it shows two figures melting into each other in a soft, blue-hued hug under a pale sun. The rigid sharpness he was known for has dissolved into gentle watercolor washes and sweeping lines, suggesting a desperate, quiet need for human connection while the world fell apart around him.
- Technique
- Watercolor and pencil
- Material
- Paper
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