![Oskar Schlemmer, [Self-Portrait at Typewriter, Prellerstrasse Studio]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/26572e76-2ba5-49cd-84fe-a5207c8c4622/full/!1400,/0/default.jpg)
[Self-Portrait at Typewriter, Prellerstrasse Studio]
1925
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 10.8 × 7.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-194497
This multiple exposure self-portrait of Oscar Schlemmer as a spectral presence in his studio creates a puzzle of numerous layers. His transparent body is much too large to sit at the typewriter before him, although he appears ready to push his chair forward to get to work. As the different exposures blend, stacks of paper and a frame on the desk behind him become the pattern of his vest. Two white-cuffed hands seem to hold up the cabinets in the upper left corner, yet the way in which the corner of the cabinet is visible through the right hand indicates that the hands represent another, separate exposure from those of the studio and photographer. Schlemmer exposed one sheet of film several different times in order to achieve this unlikely blending of forms.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1925 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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