Montaru 2C, 1954

ArtistWilli Baumeister, Stuttgart 1889–1955 Stuttgart

Oil on cardboard

(H x W)81 × 65 cm

Status

on display, room 027

About the workIn the post-war years, Willi Baumeister was the first art professor to teach abstract painting. He was searching for the unknown in art and found it in archaic and non-European cultures. “Montaru” is a term invented by Baumeister to evoke the atmosphere of an imagined foreign and distant culture that became the basis of his compositions. His forms are abstract, but display a proximity to natural processes of growth and decay.

AccessionAcquisition 1971

ProvenanceBis 1971 im Besitz der Erben Willi Baumeisters; 1971 angekauft von der Erbengemeinschaft Baumeister über Werner Rusche

Inventory number0.1971.22

Post-War Modernism
Bauhaus
Abstract (modern European style)

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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