Products description
Baumeister, Willi
born 1889 in D - Stuttgart, died 1955 in D - Stuttgart
poster of the exhibition at Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
1951 ( august 01 - october 01 )
original design
colour offset
84 cm x 59 cm
notice: was folded, very slight traces of fold on the front, on the back there are old calculations by pencil
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.
Concerning the history of the poster's competition look at Kermer, Wolfgang: Willi Baumeister - Typographie und Reklamegestaltung, 1989, Nr. 140
order no. 13318
Lit: Kermer, Wolfgang: Willi Baumeister - Typographie und Reklamegestaltung, 1989, Nr. 140 (mit Darstellung der Geschichte des Plakates)
See also our catalogue 'From Arp to Pollock': Art and exhibition posters in France and Germany 1945-1960, Köln 2016
