Modern, Post War & Contemporary
Modern, Post War & Contemporary | Auction | 30.11.2022 | Preview: 25.11.2022 - 28.11.2022

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Lot 21 | Willi Baumeister | Helle Figuren auf Dunkel

Estimate
20.000 - 30.000 €
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Result:
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29.040 €

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BAUMEISTER, WILLIStuttgart 1889 - 1955


Title: Helle Figuren auf Dunkel.
Date: 1945.
Technique: Oil on card.
Measurement: 44.5 x 59cm.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


Verso the confirmation of the artist's friend Max Ackermann (handwritten as well as with stamp).

Provenance:
- Max Ackermann, Stuttgart
- Private collection Heidelberg

Literature:
- Beye, Peter/Baumeister, Felicitas: Willi Baumeister - Werkkatalog der Gemälde II, Ostfildern Ruit 2002, cat. rais. no. 1238, ill.

- Painted in the period towards the end of the Second World War, in which Baumeister increasingly dealt with prehistoric stories and motifs.
- From the well-known series of works "Figurenlandschaften" ("Figure Landscapes"), which was created between 1940 and 1945
- Despite a ban on painting and exhibitions, Baumeister continued to develop his pictorial language during the war
- His works from this period are groundbreaking for the abstract art of the post-war period.

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Hilke Hendriksen
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Stock Id: 75185-1