Willi Baumeister

Mit rotem Kreis
1951

Oil and synthetic resin on Masonite

65 × 81 cm / 25 9/16 × 31 7/8 in

Signed and dated »1.51« and also signed, dated again, titled and inscribed »nach Berlin« and »81x65« on the verso

Catalogue Raisonné by Beye/Baumeister 2002 no. 1715; Cataloque Raisonné by Grohmann 1963 no. 1281

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Provenance

Collection Eline & Maxwell S. McKnight, Scarsdale/New York; Private Collection (1979 acquired from the above); Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich (36th auction, 26 Nov. 1979, lot 137, p. 33); Private Collection Southern Germany

Exhibitions

Galerie Ludorff, "Neuerwerbungen Herbst 2021", Düsseldorf 2021
Museum Villa Stuck, "Hommage à Günther Franke", München 1. Juli -18. September 1983
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, "Deutscher Künstlerbund 1950. Erste Ausstellung", Berlin 1951

Literature

Galerie Ludorff, "Neuerwerbungen Herbst 2021", Düsseldorf 2021, S. 10
Peter Beye/Felicitas Baumeister, "Willi Baumeister. Werkkatalog der Gemälde", Bd. II, Ostfildern 2002, Nr. 1715
Museum Villa Stuck (Hg.), "Hommage à Günther Franke", Ausst.-Kat., München 1983, Nr. 3, S. 29
Will Grohmann, "Willi Baumeister – Leben und Werk", Köln 1963, Nr. 1281
Deutscher Künstlerbund, "Deutscher Künstlerbund 1950 . Erste Ausstellung", Ausst.-Kat. Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin 1951, Nr. 13

About Willi Baumeister

With his art and his writings, Willi Baumeister played a decisive role in the abstraction and recognition of German Modernism after 1945.