Werner Graeff

Ein Bauhauskünstler berichtet / Recollections of a Bauhaus Artist

Eveline Berger, Roman Zieglgänsberger

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English

Hirmer Verlag
01 August 2017

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Individual artists, art monographs

"Werner Graeff

- painter, graphic artist, typographer,

photographer and sculptor

- is an important

Bauhaus artist and a significant representative of

Constructivism in Germany. Prompted by his friend

Mies van der Rohe he wrote his moving

autobiography ""Hürdenlauf durch das 20.

Jahrhundert"" (The Obstacle Race of the 20th

century), which this volume publishes for the first

time with a representative selection of texts. Werner Graeff ( 1901 - 1978 ) was a student at the

Bauh aus in Weimar and from

1921

a member of the

De Stijl Dutch artists' group. Together with Willi

Baumeister he was also closely associated with the

""ring neue werbegestalter"" founded in

1927

by Kurt

Schwitters. At an early stage he focused much of his

attent ion on film and photography, but in

1951 after

his return to the Ruhr region from exile in

Switzerland he once again increasingly devoted

himself to his work as an independent artist.

Illustrated with a large number of paintings,

pictograms, multiples, dra wings and graphic works from the artist's estate, this volume leads the reader

through Graeff's life and works and is at the same

time a fascinating journey through the German art

history of the

20 th century."

By: Eveline Berger, Roman Zieglgänsberger
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 196mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 1.180kg
ISBN: 9783777427973
ISBN 10: 3777427977
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 August 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roman Zieglgänsberger is a curator at the Museum Wiesbaden. Evelyn Bergner is an art historian and director of the gallery Bergner + Job in Mainz, Germany.

Reviews for Werner Graeff: Ein Bauhauskünstler berichtet / Recollections of a Bauhaus Artist

"""The Museum Weisbaden's monograph introduces an underknown artist and underscores the vibrancy of the interwar avant-garde. . . . Recommended.""-- ""CHOICE"""