Willi Baumeister

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Willi Baumeister was a prominent 20th-century German painter and graphic artist known for his pioneering role in abstract art and connections to the European avant-garde.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf graphic artist
human
painter
professor
countryOfCitizenship Germany
dateOfBirth 1889-01-22
dateOfDeath 1955-08-31
educatedAt Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts
employer Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts
Städelschule
familyName Baumeister
linked to: Peri Baumeister
fieldOfWork graphic art
painting
stage design
typography
genre abstract painting
non-objective art
givenName Willi
influenced post-war German abstract painters
influencedBy Constructivism
Cubism
Paul Cézanne
languageOfWorkOrName German
movement European avant-garde
abstract art
constructivism
modernism
name Willi Baumeister
nationality German
notableFor connections to the European avant-garde
pioneering role in German abstract art
notableWork African series
Eidos series
Ideogramme series
Montaru series
Sports Pictures series
Torsos series
Wall Painting in the Stuttgart Werkbund Exhibition
occupation graphic designer
painter
stage designer
typographer
participatedIn First World War
linked to: World War I
placeOfBirth German Empire
Kingdom of Württemberg
Stuttgart
placeOfDeath Stuttgart
positionHeld professor of commercial graphics
professor of painting
sexOrGender male
workLocation Frankfurt am Main
Stuttgart

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Willi Baumeister name Willi Baumeister