Alexander Schawinsky was known as Xanti Schawinsky. The Swiss artist was a disciple of the Bauhaus, where he was enrolled in 1924. At the time, the faculty included visionaries like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Adolf Meyer. Schawinsky worked diligently in the stage department at the Bauhaus, creating skits and pantomimes; he also studied painting. He got a job as the picture editor of a theater newspaper, then spent a few years designing typewriters for Olivetti. Schawinsky would eventually settle in New York, where he was celebrated and then forgotten after his death, in 1979. This exhibition, the first on Schawinsky outside his native Switzerland, looks at his artistic trajectory, starting with his early pieces. —Elena Clavarino