Creative phase
Training and Beginnings: 1905 to 1918
From Impressionism to Pure Form Willi Baumeister's work largely represents the development of abstract painting…
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Creative phase
After World War I: 1919 to 1927
Starting Out and Modernity In his second period of production, after World War I until…
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In Frankfurt and Afterwards: 1928 to 1935
Organic Forms and Movement In 1928 Willi Baumeister took on a professorship in Frankfurt am…
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Dismissed and Ostracized: 1936 to 1939
Baumeister's painterly development was not interrupted by the loss of his professorship in Frankfurt in…
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In Dark Times: 1940 to 1945
Even though Baumeister had been imposed with an exhibition ban, his work and its development…
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The New Beginning: 1945 to 1949
Willi Baumeister single-mindedly developed an impressive, very personal visual language that was unique in German…
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The Late Work: 1950 to 1955
In his last work phase innumerable magical fantasy-beings emerge that no longer derive from the…
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The Law Tables of Art: Willi Baumeister´s ‘Wall Pictures‘
Thus wrote Willi Baumeister in a 1934 manuscript for Westerdahl´s monograph about a style dating…
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