Xanti Schawinsky: Early Works

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.