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Unsigned. Foundry Brotal, Mendrisio. One of presumably 10 casts initiated by Tut Schlemmer from 1965 ff. With a photo-certificate by Freerk C. Valentien, Galerie Valentien Stuttgart, dated 8 June 1977. We would like to thank Karin v. Maur for information. “In Germany in 1919, Schlemmer's polychrome relief constructions signified a bold venture into a new land, even if - with regard to their semi-sculptural montage technique - they were able to build on a European development that had been emerging for several years in the avant-garde of France and had even spread to Russia via Italy. Painters and sculptors alike were seeking to test out new materials as well as a previously unknown expansion, transgression and mutual interpenetration of art forms.” (Karin v. Maur, Oskar Schlemmer, Munich 1982, p. 110). While the polychrome colouring of the first relief version - “Ornamentplastik” (see comp. illus.), which was still integrated within an idiosyncratically assembled framework - continues to invest the sculptural structure with the sense of a living organ, such as a heart, the treatment in plaster and silver emphasises the graphic element of the composition. Here the mechanical character moves into the foreground; at the same time, the individual compartments interlock as though they were parts of a well-oiled machine. Lined-up quarter rounds, grooved half pipes, serrated friezes of stripes and elongated pipe forms are joined into a sculptural, ornamental collage. It is no coincidence that Schlemmer himself referred to the relief as “Orgel” (Karin v. Maur, Oskar Schlemmer. Das plastische Werk, Stuttgart 1972, p. 17). One year after the creation of our “Ornmentale Plastik”, the artist was working on the first costumes for his “Triadic Ballet”, which seems to draw on a similar canon of forms. The ballet was performed in Stuttgart, where Oskar Schlemmer had studied under Adolf Hölzel at the academy of art. In 1921 Schlemmer was appointed to the Staatliches Bauhaus, which had been founded in Weimar in 1919. RefMod191119