Products description
Baumeister, Willi
born 1889 in D - Stuttgart, died 1955 in D - Stuttgart
Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Berlin
poster of the exhibition at Deutscher Künstlerbund
Erste Ausstellung
1951 ( august 01 - october 01 )
original design
colour offset
84 cm x 59 cm
print: Lindemann & Lüdecke Berlin
was folded, very slight traces of fold on the front, on the back there are old calculations by pencil,
but generally in quite good condition
order no. 13318
The poster won the first prize in a competition which the German Artists’ Federation had organised among its members.
The second prize went to Alexander Camaro, the third to Hann Trier.
Lit:
Kermer, Wolfgang: Willi Baumeister - Typographie und Reklamegestaltung, 1989, Nr. 140 (with an essay about the history of this poster)
See also our catalogue 'From Arp to Pollock': Art and exhibition posters in France and Germany 1945-1960, Köln 2016
