Willi Baumeister, Group with Carved Figures, 1943, Signed, Limited and Dated

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Willi Baumeister

Stuttgart 1889 - 1955

Group with incised figures, 1943

Drypoint and roulette

signed and dated in pencil lower … Read more Willi Baumeister

Stuttgart 1889 - 1955

Group with incised figures, 1943

Drypoint and roulette

signed and dated in pencil lower right

limited on the lower left 4/20

Depiction size: 16.4 x 20.8 cm

Frame: 32 x 37 cm

Rare, the edition was only 20 numbered and signed copies, printed in 1947

Spielmann catalog raisonné 155

Handmade model frame, museum glass


Authenticity confirmed in writing.


During his apprenticeship as a decorative painter, Willi Baumeister initially attended evening classes at the art academy in Stuttgart. from 1909-1912, he was a member of Adolf Hölzel's composition class and had his first contact with the future Bauhaus painter Oskar Schlemmer, with whom he would form a lifelong friendship. In 1919/20, Baumeister created his first "wall paintings", panels that were given a mural-like relief by adding sand and putty and designed with cubist forms. These paintings brought Baumeister his international artistic breakthrough. In 1928, the Städelschule in Frankfurt appointed the artist as head of the class for commercial art, typography and fabric printing. In 1930 Baumeister joined the "Cercle Carré" and in 1931 he became a member of the artists' group "Abstraction-Création". Ostracized as "degenerate" in the Third Reich, Baumeister was hardly able to appear in public as an artist. He therefore devoted himself to prehistoric and oriental studies, which provided the main motifs for his "Eidos" paintings and "Ideograms". During the war, Baumeister wrote the book "Das Unbekannte in der Kunst" (The Unknown in Art), which was first published in 1947. In the post-war era, he resumed teaching at the Academy of Art in Stuttgart. Baumeister's extensive oeuvre and his fundamental writings on art theory make him one of the most important German artists of modernism. His oeuvre, which is divided into many groups of works, was initially still rooted in figurative art, but then became increasingly abstract. This piece has an attribution mark,
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