Concentric Group

Painted soon after Quiet Room (cf. inv. no. 3238), Concentric Group is one of Schlemmer's most important paintings. It is based on a cross structure but foregoes perspectival spatial projection. A near-symmetrical cross-shaped figure arrangement is set against a contrapuntal background of two light and two dark rectangles like a giant chessboard. Above the head of the central figure a naked youth …