Walter dexel biography

Walter Dexel (born 7 February 1890 in Munich, died 8 June 1973 in Braunschweig) was a.
Walter Dexel was a German painter, commercial graphic designer, and transportation planner.
As a painter Dexel was an autodidact.

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Walter Dexel

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Walter Dexel (8 Feb 1890 – 8 June 1973) was an artist, designer, advertiser and Dr. of art history. Dexel is a prominent artist in the Constructivism (Russian avant-garde that began in 1914) movement and in “concrete” style of painting.

Dexel painted his first painting at 1913 during a trip to Italy. Dexel was an autodidact, this way Dexel obtained most of his artistic abilities. Dexel studied art history with Heinrich Wölfflin and Fritz Burger for four years (1910-1914) in Munich . During this period he also studied painting. Dexel graduated in 1916 and received his doctorate at 1919. He was influenced by many artists and artistic movements of his time such as Cézanne and later by Cubism and Expressionism.

The first paintings in his solo exhibition were painted in a cubist style, he studied during this period the work of the Bauhaus artist Lionel Finingr, through him Dexel started painting using compositions that are based on simple geometric elements. In 1918, after the war, Dexel became the head of exhibitions in Jena, where he organized exhibitions with contemporary artists

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Walter Dexel

Walter Dexel (born 1890 in Munich, Germany, died 1973 in Braunschweig, Germany) earned a PhD in art history and was a painter and graphic designer. He is considered one of the most important representatives of Constructivism in Germany. In addition to his career as an artist, he was the main curator of the Kunstverein Jena and was therefore in close contact with the artists of the Bauhaus in Weimar. Under the influence of his teacher Heinrich Wölfflin, Dexel also established and systematically assembled the internationally renowned “Formsammlung der Stadt Braunschweig – Institut für handwerkliche und industrielle Formgebung.”
Dexel became familiar with Cubism and Expressionism while in Munich, and his earlier works show basic geometric forms. From this time forward, Dexel strove to apply his new Constructivist vocabulary of forms to all areas of life in the spirit of the Bauhaus. He not only realized art in architecture projects, but he also created advertising lights, signs, and various typographical works and he designed stage sets in which he took an architectur