Willi Baumeister (1889-1955) is one of the most important representatives of Classical Modernism. In his diverse Œuvre in painting, graphic art, typography and stage design, the development of abstract art takes place - from his late impressionist beginnings throughout the Constructivist paintings of the 1920s to his non-figural late work of the 1950s. Through his teaching at the Städtische Kunstgewerbeschule Frankfurt and the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, as well as his close exchange with artists such as Oskar Schlemmer, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee and Le Corbusier, his artistic and art-theoretical work also spread abroad and shaped the development of abstraction in Europe.
In December 2017, a major exhibition of Baumeister’s works on paper was on view at the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge/MA showed his works in spring 2018 as part of the exhibition “Inventur: Art in Germany 1943-1955”.
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