Willi Baumeister
Germany (1889—1955)
Born at the end of XIX century, Baumeister began his training in evening classes at the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart. From 1908 he took on Adolf Hölzel’s composition class and met Oskar Schlemmer. He developed his artistic expression combining sand and putty in his artworks. He became professor of typography, commercial graphic and fabric printing at Frankfurt School of Applied Arts. In 1930 he joined the Cercle et Carré group and two years later Abstraction-Création. With the ascent of Nazis Baumeister became isolated: he wrote The Unknown in Art. After the war he was professor at the Kunstakademie. He died in his studio, with a paint brush in his hand.
Willi Baumeister / Naum Gabo / Hannes Meyer / Jan Tschichold / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Walter Dexel / Oskar Nerlinger / Georges Vantongerloo / Lajos Kassák / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markpvich Lissitzky) / Kazimir Maljevič / Vladimir Mayakovsky / László Moholy-Nagy / Vladimir Tatlin / Piet Mondriaan
ABC
Beiträge zum Bauen / Periodical / 24.7 x 34.5 cm / Basel, 1924-1928
Willi Baumeister / Enrico Prampolini / Michel Seuphor / Gino Severini / Joaquín Torres García / Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman / César Domela / Vilmos Huszár / Georges Vantongerloo / Henryk Stażewski / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Fernand Léger / Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) / Pablo Picasso / Kurt Schwitters / Piet Mondriaan
Cercle et carré
Magazine / Offset / 23.8 x 32.2 cm / Paris, 1930
Willi Baumeister / Naum Gabo / Lucia Moholy / Gerrit Rietveld / Paul Schuitema / Albert Renger-Patzsch / Max Burchartz / Martin Munkácsi / Vilmos Huszár / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Lajos Kassák / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markpvich Lissitzky) / Kazimir Maljevič / László Moholy-Nagy / Kurt Schwitters / Piet Mondriaan
i10
Internationale revue / Magazine / Letterpress / 21 x 30 cm / Amsterdam, 1927-1929
Willi Baumeister / Max Bill / Andreas Feininger / Lyonel Feininger / Naum Gabo / Hannes Meyer / Walter Peterhans / Gerrit Rietveld / Oskar Schlemmer / Joost Schmidt / Erich Consemüller / T. Lux Feininger / Werner David Feist / Lotte Gerson-Collein / Josef Albers / Herbert Bayer / Johannes Itten / Wassily Kandinsky / Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) / László Moholy-Nagy / Paul Klee
Bauhaus
Zeitschrift für Gestaltung / Journal / Letterpress / 21 x 29.5 cm / Dessau, 1926-1931 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn