Original stage set (3) – Hermann Alberti 1949 – Schiller “The Robbers” – Vintage Theatre Stage Design

Set of 3 stage sets (scene design) for a theatre production painted by Hermann Alberti in 1940 - stage or theatre artist or stage designer.
Schiller: The Robbers – historical theatre designs on paper

For sale is a complete set of three original stage design sketches by the German stage designer Hermann Alberti, dated 1949, for Friedrich Schiller's drama "The Robbers".
The works depict different scene designs from the same production and together form a coherent series. Such designs were created as binding templates for directing and stage design at city and state theaters and are now rare surviving testimonies of theater history.

Technology:
Mixed media - watercolor / gouache + ink
Very precise lines → a stage designer trained in craftsmanship, not an expressionist free spirit.
Details
Artist: Hermann Alberti
Date: 1940 (handwritten)
Work: Stage design / Scene design
Technique: Watercolor / Gouache / Ink on paper
Period: early 20th century / Theatre history

The design is typical of the classically minimalist theater style of the 1930s and 40s in Germany: clear architecture, a calm color palette, and a functional spatial arrangement. Hermann Alberti is known to have worked as a set designer at German municipal theaters. His works are now rare historical documents of theatrical practice.

A historical document of the theatre industry around 1940, Hermann Alberti was presumably the stage designer of the Heidelberg City Theatre.
Condition: used condition - slightly yellowed