Walter Dexel

Walter Dexel (1890–1973). As an art historian, curator, advertising designer, and painter, Dexel was completely in touch with the artistic developments of his day. A self-taught painter, he initially followed the style of Paul Cézanne, shifting his focus later towards Cubism and Expressionism. In the 1920s, his close friendship with leading Bauhaus artists prompted an affinity towards Constructivism. Reviled by the National Socialists, he abandoned painting in 1935 and returned to it in the sixties.