Xanti Schawinsky

Xanti Schawinsky

1904 — 1979

Swiss-american painter, photographer and theatre designer, belonged to the circle around Bauhaus founder and architect Walter Gropius (1904-1979)

Alexander Schawinsky, known as Xanti Schawinsky was a Swiss painter, photographer and theatre designer. An alumnus of the Bauhaus, Schawinsky belonged to Bauhaus founder and architect Walter Gropius' social circle.

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Xanti Schawinsky Harvard Art Museums
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1954

"Society exists for the benefit of its members; not the members for the benefit of society."--Herbert Spencer, Principles of Ethics, 1879. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Xanti Schawinsky Smithsonian American Art Museum
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1967

Eclipse

Xanti Schawinsky Harvard Art Museums
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1976

Inversal

Xanti Schawinsky Harvard Art Museums
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