XANTI SCHAWINSKY (1904 - 1979, SWISS/AMERICAN) Untitled, (E-191), from the Eclipse Series. Acrylic on canvas, 1967. 584x584 mm; 23x23 inches. Signed, Schawinsky, and dated, 67, lower right. Inscribed, to Vera, lower left. Inscribed, E-191, on verso. Provenance: The Artist; Private Collection, (Possibly Vera B. Williams, a student at Black Mountain College while Schawinsky was an instructor); By descent to Steven Frisina; Private collection. Xanti Schawinsky attended the Bauhaus school, studying experimental photography. His studies also included painting, and theatrical design. After imigrating to the United States, his former instructor from the Bauhaus School, Josef Albers invited him to Black Mountain College, North Carolina where he further developed his concepts in theatrical design. While enrolled at the bauhaus School he met fellow student, Theodore Lux Feininger, son of instructor Lyonel Feininger The two men collaborated on experimental photographs, one of which will be included in The Roaring Twenties, Guggenheim, Bilbao, May 7 - September 19, 2021.
XANTI SCHAWINSKY (1904 - 1979, SWISS/AMERICAN) Untitled, (E-191), from the Eclipse Series. Acrylic on canvas, 1967. 584x584 mm; 23x23 inches. Signed, Schawinsky, and dated, 67, lower right. Inscribed, to Vera, lower left. Inscribed, E-191, on verso. Provenance: The Artist; Private Collection, (Possibly Vera B. Williams, a student at Black Mountain College while Schawinsky was an instructor); By descent to Steven Frisina; Private collection. Xanti Schawinsky attended the Bauhaus school, studying experimental photography. His studies also included painting, and theatrical design. After imigrating to the United States, his former instructor from the Bauhaus School, Josef Albers invited him to Black Mountain College, North Carolina where he further developed his concepts in theatrical design. While enrolled at the bauhaus School he met fellow student, Theodore Lux Feininger, son of instructor Lyonel Feininger The two men collaborated on experimental photographs, one of which will be included in The Roaring Twenties, Guggenheim, Bilbao, May 7 - September 19, 2021.
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