Eduard Bäumer

Eduard BÄUMER was born in Kastel­laun in the Hun­srück (Rhineland-Palati­nate) in 1892. From 1912, he stud­ied at the Städelsches Kun­stin­sti­tut in Frank­furt and met Johannes Itten. The artist was also strong­ly influ­enced by Max Beck­mann. He spent a long time in Italy. After his mil­i­tary ser­vice, he attend­ed the Itten School in Berlin for sev­er­al months (1927/28). This was fol­lowed by a study trip to Paris and in 1933 he moved to Salzburg. His first exhi­bi­tion took place in Vien­na in 1942. The fam­i­ly went into hid­ing in Grossarl in Pon­gau in 1944 until the end of the war. In 1947 he was appoint­ed to the Vien­na Acad­e­my of Applied Arts (head of the paint­ing class and work­shop for glass win­dows and mosaics). In 1954/55 he met Cha­gall in Paris. From 1958 he spent sev­er­al months a year in Abruz­zo. In 1964 he moved to Tro­pea. Eduard Bäumer died in Munich in 1977. 1936 — first par­tic­i­pa­tion in an exhi­bi­tion, 1960 — first solo exhi­bi­tion at Galerie Welz.