Otto Werner, Architectural sculpture, 1922 / Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, photo: Markus Hawlik

Otto Werner, Architectural sculpture, 1922 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, photo: Markus Hawlik

Otto Werner, Architectural sculpture, 1922

This is the only stone sculpture that has survived from the sculpture workshop. Otto Werner’s work has the programmatic title Construction Sculpture: its blocky structure with a complex spatial layering of individual cubic shapes is borrowed from the New Architecture advocated by the Bauhaus and others. At the same time, Werner’s abstract sculpture also suggests associations with a human figure. The models for it were sculptures and reliefs by Oskar Schlemmer that work with overlays of architectural and figurative elements.

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