Created in tribute to the Bauhaus school in 1932, the painting was denounced by the Nazi regime, and brought to America by MoMA’s founding director, Alfred H. Barr. Christina Eliopoulos, Archives fellow for research and reference, tells the story of Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus Stairway.
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