Walter Dexel, "Diagonalkonstruktion im Quadrat II"
Strict geometric composition in the colours black, yellow ...

Walter Dexel, "Diagonalkonstruktion im Quadrat II"
Strict geometric composition in the colours black, yellow, red, brown and white, catalogue raisonné Vitt 30, colour serigraph on light cardboard, 1968, signed in lead "W. Dexel" on the right and numbered "40/40" on the left, small stain, dimensions of image approx. 27.6 x 28 cm, dimensions of sheet approx. 50 x 50 cm. Artist's info: Germ. Painter, graphic artist, commercial artist, designer, stage designer, interior designer, art historian and art collector (1890 Munich to 1976 Braunschweig), 1914-19 studied art history at the University of Munich, at the same time student of the drawing school Gröber in Munich, Studied in Italy and Paris, 1919 doctorate at the University of Jena, 1916-28 exhibition director of the Jena Art Association, kept close contact with the Bauhaus Weimar until 1925, acquaintance with Theo van Doesburg, Willi Baumeister and Erich Buchholz, 1923-27 member of the "Novembergruppe", 1928 joined the "Ring neuer Werbegestalter" around Kurt Schwitters, 1928-35 lecturer in commercial art and art history at the Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule Magdeburg, after 1933 temporarily ostracised as "degenerate", 1936-42 professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Kunsterziehung Berlin-Schöneberg, 1942-55 art historian and museum director in Braunschweig and founder of the historical "Formsammlung der Stadt Braunschweig - Institut für handwerkliche und industrielle Formgebung", member of the Deutscher Werkbund, Source: Vollmer, Dressler and Internet.