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Willi Baumeister (Stuttgart 1889 - Stuttgart 1955) - Sell & Buy

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One of the most important representatives of classical modernism in Germany. B. studied with R. Pötzelberger and A. Hölzel at the Stuttgart academy until 1919, with interruptions due to the war. Already before the First World War he exhibited for the first time with H. Walden; Hölzel arranged for him to take part in the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne in 1914. In 1927 B. became a teacher at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. In 1946 he received a professorship at the Stuttgart Academy. He was a member of the Parisian artist group Abstraction-Création and the German group ZEN 49. Mus.: New York (MoMA), Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Cologne (Mus. Ludwig), Frankfurt (Städel), Essen (Folkwang-Mus.), Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Hannover (Sprengel-Mus.), Wuppertal (Von-der-Heydt-Mus.), Amsterdam (Stedelijk Mus.), Stuttgart a. others. Lit.: AKL, Vollmer a. others.

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