Donald Oenslager

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Donald Oenslager
1902-1975
Stage Design for Wagner's Ring Cycle
1920s
Conté crayon and black ink, touched with white, scratched out, on paper.
16 9/16 x 19 3/4 inches (421 x 502 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1982.
1982.75:694
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One of a set of drawings for a set design by Donald Oenslager for an unrealized production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, ca. 1927. Oenslager's design featured a single, permanant set which, as illustrated in his series of drawings, would be successively transformed from one scene to the next with the use of dramatic lighting effects. Cf. Carnegy.
Title on mat: Flying Dutchman #6 (XI-II-26).

Provenance: 
Michael Mayr, Eisenstadt and Vienna (no mark; see Lugt S. 1804a); by descent to Marianne Fajt, Eisenstadt (see Lugt S. 1804a); János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b); acquired in 1951 by Donald M. Oenslager, New York.
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