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Willi Baumeister drawing in his studio Everything about Willi Baumeister

On this official Willi Baumeister website you will find an overview of all the important aspects of his life and art.

The painter, illustrator, and stage designer Willi Baumeister counts among the internationally most recognized representatives of classical modernism in Germany and the avant-garde of the late 1940s and 1950s.

Besides Baumeister's artistic work with which he tread innumerable paths that were pioneering for his time, his activities as an instructor at various academies and as a theoretician are also noteworthy.

Baumeister did not promote artistic abstraction as an end it itself but always considered the human and the humane to be a mainspring of his production.

Buchtitel New! Catalogue Raisonné of the Sketchbooks

The catalogue raisonné prepared by Gerd Presler and Felicitas Baumeister has been published by the Deutscher Kunstverlag and is available at a cost of € 29.90 through the Baumeister Archive as well as bookstores. 100 copies are numbered and signed by both authors. These volumes are exclusively available through the archive.

picture wall Picture Wall 1905-1955

A virtual exhibition that combines for the first time all themes and all techniques at the same time, at the same place! Now find Willi Baumeister's development clearly arranged on a picture wall

abstract geometric composition Wall Pictures

The young artist achieved an international break through already at the beginning of the 1920s. Not only Le Corbusier and Fernand Léger exhibited enthusiasm.
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the artist with two students We do not paint pictures, we study

Willi Baumeister's professorships in Frankfurt and Stuttgart shed light on his understanding of painting: Can art be taught?
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wooden african mask Willi Baumeister's Collection

An extensive collection of prehistoric and nonwestern art inspired the artist in many phases of this production.
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