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Willi Baumeister's Autobiography 1955

Also note the biographical statement of 1946.

Willi Baumeister penned this résumé shortly before his death:

Willi Baumeister

Professor, artist, stage designer
Stuttgart-O [East], Gerokstraße ...
Born on January 22, 1889 in Stuttgart - married.
Training as a decorative painter, Art Academy; Autodidact.

Until 1933 professor at the Frankfurt am Main Art School and beginning in 1946 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart; defamed as degenerate during the Hitler era. Pictures in German and foreign museums, e.g. Amsterdam, Paris, New York.

Publications:
Das Unbekannte in der Kunst (The Unknown in Art), 1947
Will Grohmann, Monograph, 1952