Schawinsky enrolled at the Weimar Bauhaus in 1921 at the age of nineteen, studying with Klee and joining Schlemmer’s theatre workshop in 1924. He created Circus around 1924–25 and, between the mid‑1920s and the end of the decade, developed his Spectrodrama while working as a graphic and set designer in Magdeburg and later in Zurich. Over time he expanded his practice beyond design, dedicating himself also to painting and to various performative interests, including playing the saxophone.
Wassily Kandinsky / Hannes Meyer / Oskar Schlemmer / Paul Klee / László Moholy-Nagy / Walter Gropius