€2,600
EDUARD BÄUMER*
(Kastellaun 1892 - 1977 Munich)
Garden, 1928
Pastel/paper, 40 x 52 cm
dated 1928, inscribed Frankfurt
provenance: private collection Vienna
ESTIMATE € 2.000 - 3.000
STARTING PRICE € 2.000
Eduard Bäumer was a German painter and graphic artist. After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Frankfurt am Main, Bäumer studied under Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel at the Kunstgewerbeschule there from 1908. From 1910 to 1914 he attended the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main, and from 1919 to 1922 he was a master student there. He was influenced above all by the Expressionists. In 1923 he married his fellow student Valerie Feix, and from 1924 to 1928 he discovered the "wild nature" around Cervara di Roma on trips to Italy. He worked for the Ullstein publishing house in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. From 1927 to 1928 he studied at the school of Johannes Itten in Berlin. From 1930 to 1931 he stayed in Paris; his neo-objective painting was influenced by Cubism. In 1933 Bäumer moved with his family to Salzburg. There he designed children's books, also with his wife Valerie Bäumer. Thanks to Alois and Magda Grasmayr, he was able to run a studio and organize poetry readings, including Werner Bergengruen. In 1937, Bäumer's watercolor "Kopf" was confiscated from the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and his panel painting "Frankfurt-Ansicht" from the Städelsche Kunstinstitut and Städtische Galerie Frankfurt/Main as part of the Nazi "Degenerate Art" campaign. The panel painting was destroyed. Because of his wife's Jewishness, Bäumer was banned from exhibiting. However, Pastor Balthasar Linsinger hired him to paint the ceiling of the pilgrimage church in Weißbach near Lofer. The couple was forced to work for the construction company Stockinger and Reinthaler alongside Russian prisoners of war. Max Peiffer Watenphul had Bäumer paint in his studio. In 1943 he participated with three works in the exhibition Young Art in the German Reich organized by Reichsleiter Baldur von Schirach in Vienna. In the same year he was drafted for military service. In 1944 the family went into hiding with Pastor Linsinger in Großarl in Pongau. 1945 Return to Salzburg. 1948 Bäumer took over the master class for painting at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna; 1950 appointment as professor. In 1964 he moved to Tropea in Calabria. On January 21, 1977, he visited the exhibition of his artistic idol, Wassily Kandinsky, in Munich and was subsequently run over.
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