Xanti Schawinsky
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Alexander Schawinsky, known as Xanti Schawinsky (March 26, 1904 – September 11, 1979) was a Swiss painter, photographer and theatre designer. An alumni of the Bauhaus, Schawinsky belonged to the circle around Bauhaus founder and architect Walter Gropius.
Early life
Shawinsky was the second child of Benjamin Schawinsky and Regina Bielawska, both of Jewish descent. Schawinsky attended school in Basel from 1910 to 1914, and then high school in Zurich from 1915 to 1921.[1] He apprenticed at the architecture office of Theodor Merill in Cologne until 1923. After visiting the Berlin School of Applied Arts for a short time in 1923, Schawinsky enrolled in the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1924. Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Adolf Meyer and László Moholy-Nagy were among his teachers.[2] In the stage department led by Oskar Schlemmer Schawinsky developed skits and pantomimes, and created his first stage work.[3]
After Bauhaus
With the closure of the Weimar Bauhaus in 1925, Schawinsky moved to Bauhaus Dessau, focusing on experimental photography. At the Bauhaus he played saxophone in the student band.[4] From 1926 to 1927 he designed stage sets in Zwickau, and taught as an assistant to Schlemmer in stage design at Bauhaus. Schawinsky also began to devote himself to painting.[5] In 1927 he exhibited at the German Theater Exhibition in Magdeburg.
Schawinsky was close friends with Herbert Bayer and Marcel Breuer and was godfather of Julia Bayer, the 1929-born daughter of Herbert and Irene Bayer.
References
- ^ 1904-1979., Schawinsky, Xanti, (1986). Xanti Schawinsky : Malerei, Bühne, Grafikdesign, Fotografie. Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv. pp. 9–28. ISBN 3875841719. OCLC 15315357.
{{cite book}}:|last=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 1904-1979., Schawinsky, Xanti, (1986). Xanti Schawinsky : Malerei, Bühne, Grafikdesign, Fotografie. Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv. pp. 9–28. ISBN 3875841719. OCLC 15315357.
{{cite book}}:|last=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 1904-1979., Schawinsky, Xanti, (1986). Xanti Schawinsky : Malerei, Bühne, Grafikdesign, Fotografie. Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv. pp. 9–28. ISBN 3875841719. OCLC 15315357.
{{cite book}}:|last=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 1904-1979., Schawinsky, Xanti, (1986). Xanti Schawinsky : Malerei, Bühne, Grafikdesign, Fotografie. Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv. pp. 9–28. ISBN 3875841719. OCLC 15315357.
{{cite book}}:|last=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Bauhaus und Bauhäusler : Erinnerungen und Bekenntnisse (Erw. Neuausg ed.). Köln: DuMont. 1985. p. 213. ISBN 3770116739. OCLC 14815762.