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Willi Baumeister
Painter, raphic artist, stage designer, Willi Baumeister is born in 1889 in Stuttgart (Germany).After an apprenticeship as a painter and decorator (1905-1907), he receives training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown (1905-1911). He is the friend of Julius Bissier, meets Fernand Leger,
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Biography of Willi Baumeister
Painter, raphic artist, stage designer, Willi Baumeister is born in 1889 in Stuttgart (Germany).After an apprenticeship as a painter and decorator (1905-1907), he receives training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown (1905-1911). He is the friend of Julius Bissier, meets Fernand Leger, Le Corbusier, Ozenfant and many others in Paris (1929), becoming member of the Association Cercle et Carré (Cercle and Square). In 1931, the artist joins theAbstraction-Creation group. In 1938, he participates in the exhibition "Twentieth Century German Art" in London and meets Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Joan Miro and Wassily Kandinsky. Baumeister is one of the most important representatives of German modern art and an avant-garde of the late forties and fifties. ioneered artist of international recognition, his multiple works opens countless ways in the artistic production of his time. illi Baumeister, who never practices the abstraction for itself, does not cease considering man and human being as the ultimate spring of creation. he artist is professor in various Academies, while developing a theoretical reflection of wide-ranging plan. He dies in Stuttgart in 1955.
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1936 Original lithograph in colors, signed in pencil by the artist. Title : Der Maler. Spielmann-Baumeister n°42Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
* « Werkkatalog der Druckgraphik », Heinz Spielmann, Felicitas Baumeister, Ostfildern, 2005.
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* « Hommage à Baumeister », collectif, catalogue d'exposition, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, 1979* « Willi Baumeister », G. Boehm, Ed. Hatje, Stuttgart, 1995
* « Willi Baumeister: Werkkatalog der Gemälde », P. Beye et F. Baumeister, Ed. Hatje Cantz, 2002.
* « Willi Baumeister: Figuren und Zeichen », catalogue d'exposition, Ed. Hatje Cantz, 2005
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A tribute to Willi Baumeister
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Il avait, en son temps, été mis à l'écart par le régime national-socialiste et plusieurs de ses œuvres fu-rent présentées à l'exposition « Entartete Kunst » (L’art dégénéré) à Munich en 1937. A sa disparition, Willi Baumeister était au sommet de sa carrière artistique. Le peintre et typographe allemand est mort, assis le pinceau à la main en train de peindre, dans son atelier de Stuttgart, le 31 août 1955, il avait 66 ans. Il repose au cimetière Pragfriedhof de Stuttgart. En son hommage, avec respect, ce coquelicot.
"De nous tous, c'est vous qui réussirez le mieux." - Adolf Hölzel, son professeur en 1919
"L'œuvre d'art forme un cosmos qui s'affirme parallèlement à la nature." - Willi Baumeister
"Je suis heureux de voir la belle tenue de vos œuvres, ici rassemblés. Tout cela est éminemment pictu-ral. Vos dessins sont très beaux. Dès 1920, votre départ, vous êtes sain et intéressant. Vous allez à l'avenir avec sécurité." - Le Corbusier, 1931
"Parmi les phénomènes sains, naturels, attrayants, il y a l'art de Willi Baumeister. Je suis convaincu que cet art doit susciter, même auprès du profane, même inconsciemment, l'impression d'une création qui se nourrit d'un terrain sain et repose solidement sur ses deux pieds. C'est une force naturelle positive qui, dans sa sérénité bien vivante, l'emporte malgré tout." - Vassily Kandinsky
"Le nom de Baumeister, parmi ceux de l'art moderne allemand, tient à mes yeux une place extrêmement importante ... Et il a résolument fait son chemin en dehors de l'expressionnisme allemand, si envahis-sant et si caractéristique." - Fernand Léger, 1949
"Toute œuvre d’art est une représentation de soi-même." - Willi Baumeister
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- + ABSTRACTION-CREATION / 1931-1938 / Etienne Béothy, Frantisek Kupka, Piet Mondrian, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Vantongerloo, etc.
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