1921

Color Form 2 (Night)

German, 1886 - 1966

Schreyer, who was head of the Bauhaus stage workshop from 1921 to 1923, sent six watercolor paintings and one hand-colored woodcut to the 1922 exhibition in Calcutta. Bearing titles like Farbklang (Color Sound) and Rhythmus (Rhythm), these works were evocative of Schreyer’s dramaturgical explorations into the expressionistic qualities of color, sound, movement, and language. In the performance of his play Kindsterben (Child Death), for example, actors wore elaborate masks and recited their lines in rhythmic sequences. Color Form 2 (Night) may have served as a design for one of the painted figures that also filled the stage.