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Xanti Schawinsky

♂  American, born Switzerland. 1904–1979

Xanti worked at MoMA about 1943 as Designer . He has been in six exhibitions at MoMA, between 1941 and 1988.

Seven exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Artist
Photo of the exhibition National Defense Poster Competition

16 July to 7 September 1941

George Platt Lynes, John Atherton, Xanti Schawinsky and Joseph Binder, among others, were involved.

Designer
Bali, Background for War: The Human Problem of Reoccupation

11 August to 19 September 1943

Xanti Schawinsky and Gregory Bateson were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Posters

24 May to 17 September 1944

Ben Shahn, El Lissitzky, Herbert Bayer and Monroe Wheeler, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Abstraction in Photography

1 May to 4 July 1951

Edward Steichen, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism

23 June to 4 October 1953

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Greetings!

1 March to 8 May 1966

Ben Shahn, Roy Lichtenstein, Josef Albers and Herbert Bayer, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition The Modern Poster

6 June to 6 September 1988

Max Ernst, Ben Shahn, Pierre Bonnard and Oskar Kokoschka, among others, were involved.