BAUMEISTER, WILLIStuttgart 1889 - 1955


Title: Monturi, Diskus (mit Segmenten).
Date: 1954.
Technique: Oil, synthetic resin and sand on fibreboard.
Measurement: 185 x 129cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: Baumeister 3 54. Verso bottom equipped with stamp: atelier willi baumeister.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Estate Willi Baumeister
- Galerie Michael Hertz, Bremen
- Corporate collection Germany (in 1981 acquired from the previous owner)

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Beyeler, Basel 1978
- Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York 1978/79
- Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1979 (label)

Literature:
- Beye, Peter/Baumeister, Felicitas: Willi Baumeister - Werkkatalog der Gemälde II, Ostfildern Ruit 2002, cat. rais. no. 2004, ill. (here differntly titled: Monturi mit Segmenten)
- Grohmann, Will: Willi Baumann - Leben und Werk, Cologne 1963, cat. rais. no. 1546, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Baumeister, Galerie Beyeler, Basel 1978, cat. no. 42
- Exhib. cat. Willi Baumeister, Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York 1978/79, p. 29, cat. no. 21, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Willi Baumeister 1945-1955, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1979, p. 137, cat. no. 51


- Baumeister's work decisively advanced the further development of abstract art after 1945
- Cheerful composition with high poetic expressiveness
- Expression of Baumeister's exploration of the unknown and incomprehensible.