Rudolf Bauer Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
German, 1889-1953
The true story of Rudolf Bauer is perhaps one of the most complex, tragic, and ironic of 20th century art history. Rudolf Bauer was a pioneering German-born artist who, along with Vasily Kandinsky, was among the first abstract artists in the world. His “non-objective” abstract style would go on to influence virtually all aspects of modern art and serve as a beacon to Pollock, Rothko, and other artists who formed the New York school of Abstract Expressionism. In the first half of the 20th century, Bauer’s works were displayed alongside such luminaries as Picasso, Chagall, Miró, Mondrian, and Kandinsky, in numerous galleries and museums throughout the world. However by the end of World War II, Bauer had stopped painting and fell into obscurity.(Biography provided by Stone and Press Gallery)
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Artist: Rudolf Bauer
Fashion Couple
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Ink on Paper
Dimensions: 17.50" x 10.75"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Rudolf Bauer Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Untitled (Brown and Blue Shapes)
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled (Brown and Blue Shapes)
Gouache and watercolor
18.25 x 11.62 inches
Framed: 32.5 x 26 inches
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Rudolf Bauer Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Woman in a Fur Wrap
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman in a Fur Wrap
Pen and ink heightened with white, c. 1920
Signed in ink lower right (see photo)
Estate stamp verso (see photo)
Provenance: estate of the artist
Borghi & Company, New York
Condition: excellent
Sheet/Image size: 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Rudolph Bauer
1889-1953
"Rudolf Bauer was born in Lindenwald near Bromberg, Silesia, in 1889 but his family moved only a few years later to Berlin. In 1905 Bauer began his studies at the Berlin Academy of Art but left the Academy only a few months later to educate himself. The upshot was paintings, caricatures and comical drawings which were published in 'Berliner Tageblatt', 'Ulk' and 'Le Figaro'.
From 1912 Bauer contributed to the magazine and Gallery 'Der Sturm' founded by Herwarth Walden and pivotal to German Expressionism and the international avant-garde. In 1915 Rudolf Bauer participated for the first time in a group show at Walden's gallery. There he met Hilla von Rebay...
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1920s Art Deco Rudolf Bauer Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Non-Objective Drawing (Double sided composition)
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Non-Objective Drawing (Double sided composition)
Graphite on paper, 1938
Initialed "B" by the artist lower right corner
Created while the artist was imprisoned in a Gestapo Prison for his "Degenerate Art"
Image size: 7 x 6 3/4 inches
Housed in raw silk matting in a reproduction Gugenheim style frame with OP3 Acrylic
Frame dimensions: 16 x 17 x 1 1/2 inches
Condition: Folded in quarters by the artist to hide the drawing from the Gestapo
Irregular margins
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Phillips Auction, New York
Borghi Inc.
"Back in Berlin, Das Geistreich had become a lonely island of individualism in a menacing sea of Nazism. The Bauhaus had been closed down by the government in 1933, and artists such as Bauer were increasingly ostracized. Many had already fled the country. Rebay wrote Bauer in August 1937 to report that she had visited the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, which featured many artists from their Der Sturm days, including works by Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, and, of course, Bauer. Why Bauer lingered so long in this hostile environment remains a mystery. He was not Jewish, yet his patron was one of the richest Jews in the world. This association would not go unnoticed in Nazi Germany.
In July 1937 Bauer traveled to Paris because his work was included in an exhibition called Origines et développement de l'art international indépendant, organized by the Musée du Jeu de Paume. In this large survey of the period, his painting was shown alongside the work of Picasso, Georges Braque, Léger, Chagall, and Joan Miró. It is believed that while he was in Paris he received word from friends that it was too dangerous to return to Berlin; yet he ignored the warning. According to the Rebay documentarian Sigrid Faltin, it is likely that his sister, a Nazi zealot who had disowned him, turned him in to the authorities for his art. Bauer was suddenly a prisoner in Berlin. Defiant, he scavenged scraps of paper and pencils while in prison, so that he could continue to draw."
Courtesy Weinstein Gallery...
Category
1930s Abstract Rudolf Bauer Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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