Eduard Bäumer

_{Kastellaun, Rheinland-Pfalz 1892 - 1977 München}

Eduard Bäumer was born 1982 and grew up in Frankfurt am Main. After the early death of his father in 1904 he entered into an apprenticeship with a decorative painter and later went on to study at the School of Applied Art under Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel before attending the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt. 1930/31 he made his first journey to Paris, which strongly influenced him. 1933 he moved to Salzburg because the art he loved was called "degenerate art" there. He taught at the College of Applied Art in Vienna from 1947 to 1963. During this period his interest for Calabria began, which was to be of special importance for the works of his final years. He studied above all the trends in early ’twenties French art, together with Neue Sachlichkeit. His interest in the work of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard was of special significance for his artistic oeuvre. In 1977 he died because of a car accident.