BAUMEISTER, WILLIStuttgart 1889 - 1955Title: Helle Figuren auf Dunkel. Date: 1945. Technique: Oil on card. Measurement: 44.5 x 59cm. Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Verso the confirmation of the artist's friend Max Ackermann (handwritten as well as with stamp).Provenance:- Max Ackermann, Stuttgart- Private collection HeidelbergLiterature: - Beye, Peter/Baumeister, Felicitas: Willi Baumeister - Werkkatalog der Gemälde II, Ostfildern Ruit 2002, cat. rais. no. 1238, ill.- Painted in the period towards the end of the Second World War, in which Baumeister increasingly dealt with prehistoric stories and motifs.- From the well-known series of works "Figurenlandschaften" ("Figure Landscapes"), which was created between 1940 and 1945- Despite a ban on painting and exhibitions, Baumeister continued to develop his pictorial language during the war- His works from this period are groundbreaking for the abstract art of the post-war period.