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European Day of Restoration

Themed tours of the Baumeister Archive and Restoration Studio at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Sun, October 19, 2025
12 - 1 p.m., 2 - 3 p.m., 4 - 5 p.m.

The art technology research project “Innovation or Replacement?” will be presented using works by Willi Baumeister. The tour provides insight into the working methods and collaboration between the painting restoration department of the State Academy of Fine Arts (Prof. Dr. Wibke Neugebauer), the Baumeister Archive (Hadwig Goez), and the restoration studio at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Roxanne Schindler).
 

Meeting point in the foyer of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart: Limited number of participants.
Information and registration: fuehrung@kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de or T: +49 (0) 711 / 216 196 25 Registration required*
Participation fee €3 / reduced €2 (plus admission to the collection)

https://willi-baumeister.org/en/content/innovation-or-replacement
 

The educational program is sponsored by the Wüstenrot Foundation on the occasion of European Restoration Day.

 

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INNOVATION OR REPLACEMENT?

INNOVATION OR REPLACEMENT?
Art technological research on new painting materials between 1930 and 1955 using the example of Willi Baumeister (duration 2022-2027)

Using the example of the Stuttgart artist and academy professor Willi Baumeister (1889-1955), the research project investigates how the scarcity of traditional painting materials during the Second World War affected his choice of materials and the current state of preservation of his paintings. Of particular interest are the new materials introduced during the Second World War, such as early synthetic binders, new types of paint and painting supports such as hardboard: did he see them exclusively as temporary - and perhaps inferior - substitutes for traditional materials, or were they able to establish themselves as innovative materials in his art even after the end of the war? How did these material changes affect the state of preservation of his paintings?

 

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PROCESSING THE WRITTEN ESTATE OF FRITZ SEITZ

Foto: Ester Hagenlocher, Fritz Seitz, Alte Apotheke in Nusse bei Lübeck, 2014

PROCESSING THE WRITTEN ESTATE OF FRITZ SEITZ | Cooperation of University of Oregon, U.S.A. and Willi Baumeister Stiftung

The written estate and most of the works of the artist Fritz Seitz (1926–2017), a student of Willi Baumeister from 1950 to 1954, have been housed in the Willi Baumeister Foundation since 2015. Seitz's unique and innovative approach to the subject of Color, which he developed from the 1960s onwards, significantly contributes to the field.

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