The first owner of the gouache, the Swiss architect Ernst Friedrich Burckhardt (1900-1958), is considered a pioneer of regional planning and worked as a lecturer for theatre construction at ETH Zurich.
Body colour in white, grey, red, brown, ochre, light blue and black and pencil on paper. 43,6 × 29,4 cm
(17 ⅛ × 11 ⅝ in.). On the cardboard backing of the mount a label of Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich. There too on an attached paper signed and dated in pen and black ink: W Baumeister 1922/23. Catalogue raisonné: Ponert 131. [3166] Framed
Provenance
Ernst Friedrich Burckhardt, Küsnacht (acquired from the artist) / Private Collection, Berlin
The first owner of the gouache, the Swiss architect Ernst Friedrich Burckhardt (1900-1958), is considered a pioneer of regional planning and worked as a lecturer for theatre construction at ETH Zurich.
