Research on Fritz Seitz

Since 2015, the art the­o­ry estate of Fritz Seitz (1926–2017) has been held by the Willi Baumeis­ter Foun­da­tion. Seitz, who stud­ied under Willi Baumeis­ter from 1950 to 1954, devel­oped a new approach to colour in the 1960s.

Fritz Seitz’s art the­o­ry is cur­rent­ly being revis­it­ed. His pub­li­ca­tions on the sub­ject of colour com­prise 36 brochures, pub­lished between 1962 and 1984. The art edu­ca­tor inno­v­a­tive­ly com­bined the teach­ing of colour with exam­ples of applied art.

Esther Hagen­locher, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor, Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon, U.S.A., is col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Willi Baumeis­ter Foun­da­tion and the Baumeis­ter Archive at the Kun­st­mu­se­um Stuttgart to devel­op the first schol­ar­ly cat­a­logue for Eng­lish-lan­guage art his­to­ry.

Fritz Seitz on his teacher Willi Baumeis­ter: ‘A guar­an­tee for some­thing com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent’
Link to Fritz Seitz´s home­page
Link to Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon