"Willi Baumeister and the universal in art"
1999-08-28 until 1999-10-31
Cobra Museum of Modern Art
Amstelveen, , NL Netherlands

The exhibition consists of abstract work by Willi Baumeister 1889-1955; and of several other artists who considered that abstract art has a universal character. The focus is on the book Das Unbekannte in der Kunst [The Unknown in Art] by Willi Baumeister and the abstract art of the Fifties. For Baumeister, the ;Unbekannte; was the universal aspect that he found in objects and in many different cultures.

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