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CONTEMPORARY ART

Xanti Schawinsky: Early Works

Curated by Raphael Gygax

Galerie Gregor Staiger

Via Gioacchino Rossini, 3, 20122, Milan, MI, Italy
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Ongoing exhibition
14 February – 25 April 2025
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri: 14:00 – 19:00
Free admission

Xanti Schawinsky, Untitled (Stage design for the theater of Zwickau), 1926, Black and white photograph, tempera and pencil on paper, 55 x 59.5 x 4 cm

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Galerie Gregor Staiger is pleased to present the second exhibition of works by the Swiss artist Alexander “Xanti” Schawinsky (born 1904 in Basel, died 1979 in Locarno). He was part of the first generation of artists to study at the Bauhaus, where he enrolled in 1924. His professors and later friends included important artists such as Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. His main contributions there were in the theater department together with Oskar Schlemmer; he wrote plays, created sets and costumes, and performed. The exhibition shows a small selection of Schawinsky's early works from the 1920s to the 1940s. Between 1933 and 1936, Schawinsky lived in Milan, where he worked as a commercial artist for Studio Boggeri in addition to his own artistic work.

Xanti Schawinsky, Movimento, 1935, Aqueous ink and pen suspended on paper, 56 x 65.3 x 4 cm
Xanti Schawinsky: Early Works, 2025. Exhibition view, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Milan
Xanti Schawinsky: Early Works, 2025. Exhibition view, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Milan
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Galerie Gregor Staiger

Via Gioacchino Rossini, 3, 20122, Milan, MI, Italy
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