Willi Baumeis­ter was a painter, illus­tra­tor, typog­ra­ph­er, stage design­er, and pro­fes­sor…

He gained inter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion as an artist in the ear­ly 1920s with his con­struc­tivist wall paint­ings. He is con­sid­ered one of the most impor­tant Ger­man rep­re­sen­ta­tives of clas­si­cal mod­ernism. After 1945, he shaped the art scene in post-war Ger­many as a spokesper­son for mod­ern paint­ing.