Werner Graeff

Recollections of a Bauhaus Artist

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.

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Werner Graeff (1901–1978) was a student at the Bauhaus 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 attention on fi lm 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, drawings 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 20th century.

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Ein schön gestalteter Band.

Photo International

Graeff erzählt von Meilensteinen und Inspirationen, abschließende Essays beleuchten schließlich sein Werk von außen. Ein bewegender Band!

Novum - World of graphic design

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Ed. Evelyn Bergner, Roman Zieglgänsberger

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With contributions by E. Bergner, W.Graeff, U.Graeff-Hirsch, J.Neugebauer, R.Zieglgänsberger

English-German edition

288 pages,105 illustrations
19.5 x 25 cm, linen with dust jacket

ISBN: 978-3-7774-2797-3