The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation delights in the addition of new works to its collection from the Grewenig Archive in Bensheim – a generous endowment comprising 24 paintings and 37 graphic works by the painter and graphic designer Leo Grewenig (1898-1991).
Grewenig progressed from the Kunstakademie in Kassel to the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he passed the master’s examinationin wall painting in 1925. At the Bauhaus he first attended the preliminary course under László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers, then studied under Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. He subsequently moved to Berlin. There in 1931 at the Kunstschule Berlin Schöneberg, he passed the state examination as an art teacher. Then came the National Socialist years in which Grewenig, like almost all of the Bauhauslers, was prohibited from exhibiting his work. In the postwar period Grewenig taught art in Saarland; in 1957 he relocated to Bensheim in Hessen, where he died in 1991.
The collection comprises examples of his late work, which reflect Grewenig’s beginnings at the Bauhaus as well as the art-historical developments of the 20th century. The exhibited works are characterised by detailed, delicate compositions with subtle gradations of colour that enhance the individual impact of the works.
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