Rudolf Bauer (artist)
Rudolf Bauer ( born February 11, 1889 in linden wood, circle Wirsitz, province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, † November 28, 1953 in Deal, New Jersey, United States ) was a German artist of abstract art, the last decades of his life in U.S. spent.
Life
Bauer's family moved in his youth to Berlin. He developed his artistic skills already as a teenager. Later he attended the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin against the resistance of his father. He earned his living with Illustrations and cartoons for various magazines and newspapers. In 1912, his style changed towards abstraction.
In the same year 1912 learned Bauer Herwarth Walden know who had recently founded the magazine Der Sturm. Bauer involved with the magazine and the gallery Der Sturm active until 1921. Storm in the gallery, Bauer 1915 his first works in 1917 his first solo exhibition was held there with 120 lyrical- abstract works. Two other exhibitions followed in 1919 and 1920. The group of storm - artists included Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Otto Nebel and until his early Kriegstod Franz Marc.
1917 Bauer got the know Baroness Hilla Rebay (of honor meadows ). In 1918 he was Gründungsgmitglied the November group in Berlin and 1920 the artist group The crater. Rebay and Bauer learned to know each and had shared a studio in 1919. The Rebay family was against this connection. Rebay made in consequence a tour of Italy. Between the two there was still an exchange of letters, however, alienated.
First contacts in the USA
1920 visited Katherine Sophie Dreier, who had previously founded together with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, the Société Anonyme Inc., Berlin and bought several works builder, including the painting Andante V, which is now (2013 ) in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (Connecticut) depends.
Bauer remained in Berlin and taught at Berlin -Charlottenburg his own contemporary art museum one that was specified by him, the spirit realm. 1927 Rebay traveled to the USA and portrayed there the copper industrialist Solomon R. Guggenheim. During this time, she could Guggenheim show some works of nonrepresentational art of Kandinsky and Bauer. His decision to collect this art originated in this period. Guggenheim and his wife traveled to Germany in 1930 along with Rebay, to meet Kandinsky and Bauer. Bauer's style had changed in that time, to geometric abstraction that should determine his work in the future. Guggenheim bought some plants builder. The proceeds related Bauer for further exhibitions in his museum.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection
The collection of the Guggenheim magnate was first shown in March 1936 at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston (South Carolina) and then went on, for example, the Arts Club of Chicago. Bauer had traveled to the exhibition opening in the U.S. and only returned in 1938 to Germany. In the meantime, his works were shown in the Degenerate Art exhibition. Bauer was arrested upon his return and charged with breach of exchange. Only after a few months, he was released again and prepared his departure to the United States before, which took place in July 1939.
More life in the United States
Shortly before Bauer's arrival in New York, the Museum of Non - Objective Painting was there at the address 24 East 54th Street in Manhattan was opened. The opening exhibition, entitled The Art of Tomorrow showed Bauer Painting Orange Accent. The first few months had lived with Rebay Bauer, Executive Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has become, before he moved into Manhattan belonging to one of the Guggenheim houses in Deal on the Atlantic Coast in New Jersey.
Add Deal Bauer signed a contract with the Guggenheim in which he sold 110 paintings on this. However, Bauer's Sprachkennnissse not enough to read the contract properly: the $ 500,000 specified in the contract were not in a lump sum, but according to the contract paid as a life annuity. All other works builder should be the property of the Foundation. Bauer was so shocked by this bond of his life and works on the foundation that he not painted from then on. Even his relationship with Rebay suffered under these conditions. 1944 Bauer married his housekeeper Louise Huber. He died in 1953 from lung cancer.
Aftermath
Guggenheim died in 1949, Rebay was forced to resign from her post in the Guggenheim Foundation and the Board of Directors of the Foundation broke new ground, among others, away from the Non-Objective Art, so Bauer's work was housed for now in the magazines. In 1967, some of his works were shown at the Guggenheim Museum in the exhibition Seven Decades, A Selection. In 2005, the exhibition Art of Tomorrow was: Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim demonstrated both in New York and Munich in the Villa Stuck and Berlin at the Deutsche Guggenheim. 2007 were the Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, which also represents the estates, a section of his work. The Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida received as a gift 60 drawings and paintings manufacturer.