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E. Otto Baum

* 1900 in Leonberg, † 1977 in Esslingen, German sculptor

• Otto Baum (1900 - 1977)
  Although he has been forgotten in recent years, Otto Baum is nevertheless one of the most important sculptors of the mid-20th century in Germany. Born in Leonberg, he grew up in Vaihingen and later studied at the Stuttgart Academy. Like many artists of his generation, he was sidelined during the Nazi regime. He had to work in hiding and had no opportunity to exhibit.
  
  Nevertheless, he pursued his chosen path of simplifying forms undeterred until he arrived at increasingly pure solutions that made him one of the founders of modern sculpture. Hans Arp and Henry Moore held him in high esteem. He received late recognition in 1946 through his appointment to the Stuttgart Academy (see below), where he was finally able to work freely.
  
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• ... In 1946 he was appointed professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart by the then Minister of Culture, Thoedor Heuss. Together with Willi Baumeister, Otto Baum was the protagonist of contemporary art at the Stuttgart Art Academy. International exhibition participations followed. Together with Ernst Barlach, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Georg Kolbe, Renée Sintenis, Gerhard Marcks, Toni Stadler, Ewald Mataré, Rudolf Belling, Hans Uhlmann, Hermann Blumental, Karl Hartung and Bernhard Heiliger, he represented the German sculptors in the 1957 exhibition "German Art of the Twentieth Century" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ...
  
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• Gallery Schlichtenmaier - Artists: Otto Baum
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