Modern Classics - About the artist and his painting:

Willi Baumeister (1889 - 1955) was a German painter, stage designer, graphic artist and typographer. He was also a professor in typography, commercial art and textile printing at the Städtische Kunstgewerbeschule (Städelschule) in Frankfurt until he was dismissed from his teaching position by the National Socialists in 1933. From then until the end of 1945 he was considered a degenerate artist. Artistically, he pursued the abstraction of the human figure and an object‘s dimensions and structure. Through his work as a typographer and author, he contributed greatly to the development of typography and commercial art in Germany and Europe.

Figure and Circle Segment (1923, lithograph, 15.6 x 9 in) 

In addition to his paintings, Willi Baumeister also created about 150 lithographs. In “Figure and Circle Segment“ he reduces the motif to colorful graphic shapes and bundles them into a clear and very consolidated composition. What at first glance appears to be a study of graphics, at second glance reveals the image of a person. The following quote by Baumeister clarifies his artistic understanding: “The painter must find the shortest, simplest form of expression for the essence of people.“

What does this resource contain?

• Postcards (5.8 x 4.1 in)
  
• Miniature (6.3 x 3.5 in)
  
• Study painting (9 x 5.1 in)
  
• Group Work Poster (56.7 x 26 in)

How can I make the group work poster?

1. Print all template pages for the poster on white printing paper.
   
2. Color or paint the individual sheets according to the template or your own imagination. Make sure that the dotted lines around the outside remain visible.
   
3. Once dry, cut out the colored sheets along the dotted lines and sort them- each letter in a separate pile. Then sort them by number so that 1 is on top and 4 is on the bottom.
   
4. Glue all ‘A’ sheets together. To do so, apply glue to the long tab on the right side of sheet A1 and glue sheet A2 on top of it so that its left edge is aligned with the solid line. Glue A3 to A2, A4 to A3 and so on until the first row is complete. Repeat this process with all rows.
   
5. Now glue row B’s upper edge to the tab on the lower edge of row A. Then glue row C to row B and so on until all rows are glued together. Your poster is finished!