Ruth Baumgarte: Become Who You Are! The Art of Living

An overview of Baumgarte’s life’s work, in which she explored the social controversies of postwar West Germany in exuberant watercolors.

During a period of radical political change, German painter Ruth Baumgarte (1923-2013) created an artistic oeuvre in which humankind and its fragile existence are at the center. This volume introduces her as a passionate drawer, a versatile applied graphic artist and an expressive painter. Baumgarte was an art student during World War II, and the turbulent...