Oskar & Darja / Schlemmer's Muse
- New aspects of Oskar Schlemmer's biography
- Contribution to the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
- First-hand history
This book is based on the notes of Alexey Ekimovskaya, the grandson of Dora Naumovna Ekimovskaya, who lived with Oskar Schlemmer until the outbreak of the First World War. The eventful and internationally active life of this Russian revolutionary is thus made tangible for the first time.
Born in 1890 in Slonim, which was still tsarist at the time, Dora "Darja" Ekimovskaya developed early on into a supporter of the Jewish labor movement. Fleeing military despotism, they organized themselves subversively, first in the countryside and later in Vilnius. In 1907 she went to Berlin via Tilsit and Königsberg. After experiences in bohemian culture and in established artistic milieus, she met Oskar Schlemmer, with whom she had an intensive liaison until she finally returned to what was now Soviet Russia, taking detours across half of Europe. The book conveys proximity to a generation that witnessed the fundamental upheavals of the 20th century.
88 pages, 9 illustrations
14 x 20.5 cm, bound
14 x 20.5 cm, bound
