BAUMEISTER, WILLIStuttgart 1889 - 1955


Title: "Urrwo (Braunes Reliefbild)".
Date: 1951.
Technique: Oil, synthetic resin and putty on fibreboard.
Measurement: 65 x 81cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower centre: Baumeister 8 51. Titled, dated and signed verso upper: Urrwo Braunes Relief-Bild 1951 Baumeister. Here additionally provided with work details.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Private ownership
- Gallery Gunzenhauser, Munich (label)
- Corporate collection Germany (acquired from previous owner in 1978)

Exhibitions:
- Hacker Gallery, New York 1952
- Gunzenhauser Gallery, Munich 1974
- Kunstverein Frankfurt a.M., 1983

Literature:
- Beye, Peter/Baumeister, Felicitas: Willi Baumeister - catalogue raisonné of paintings II, Ostfildern Ruit 2002, cat. rais. no. 1208, ill.
- Grohmann, Will: Willi Baumann - Life and Work, Cologne 1963, cat. rais. no. 872, ill.
- Exhib. cat. From the holdings of the gallery, Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich 1978, p. 40, cat. no. 10, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Kunst nach 45 aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz, Kunstverein Frankfurt a.M., 1983, p. 56/405, ill.


- Coveted work from the late oeuvre of the pioneer of abstract art
- New interpretation of the relief theme that has preoccupied the artist since 1919
- Exciting connection between fantastic figuration and abstraction.