Skip to content
Willi Baumeister
Willi Baumeister und Fernand Léger in Paris

Kun­st­be­tra­ch­tung – a sound doc­u­ment

News

To lis­ten to or down­load (mp3-for­mat):

Baumeis­ter wrote “Kun­st­be­tra­ch­tung” in 1924 as a con­ver­sa­tion between the Ger­man Willi Baumeis­ter and the French­man Fer­nand Léger – inspired by their dis­cus­sions about art.

The audio record­ing pro­duced in 2013 (not a his­tor­i­cal record­ing) is an abridged ver­sion of “Kun­st­be­tra­ch­tung”:

Photo: black and white: Willi Baumeister, Fernand Léger, France, Paris, 1949.
Willi Baumeis­ter and Fer­nand Léger, France, Paris, 1949.
Pho­to: Willy May­wald (Inven­to­ry No. ab-f-009–002)
© Archiv Baumeis­ter im Kun­st­mu­se­um Stuttgart