Concentric Group
painting by Oskar Schlemmer at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Concentric Group is an oil on canvas painting by Oskar Schlemmer, from 1925.
Description
The painting is an oil on canvas with dimensions of 97.5 × 62 centimeters. It is in the collection of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, in Stuttgart.
Analysis
The painting is based on a sketch from 1921. It sold at auction in 2011, with a starting price of 7,500 euros, and bought for 13,125 euros. the sketch's size is 45.2 x 34.3 cm. The painting concentric group was created with oil paints on canvas. The work is characterized by a classic symmetry.
Schlemmer was influenced by Cubism, but is also used for constructivist techniques. Already in 1922, he sketched a fun and colorful puppet, and it combined what he is doing all his life, namely, the desire to portray the figure, which, like a puppet, moves in a given space.
“Concentric Group” enters the record as painting by Oskar Schlemmer at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Concentric, Group and painting can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22570081. Authority coordinates are 48.780, 9.187. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1925, 1921, 2011 and 1922.
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