"'Though the truth be crushed to the earth, it shall rise again and to my mind has come the realization that the many years of silence must be broken. The world must and should know the truth of my husband’s life, his hopes, his labors, his honesty and his bitter betrayal. Rudolf Bauer, artist of great spiritual scope, writer of vision, master thinker, Rudolf Bauer!' —Mrs. Louise Bauer, 1954 Early in the 20th century in Berlin, a German caricaturist and political cartoonist named Rudolf Bauer began to make his mark. While Bauer's illustrations delighted his audience and paid the bills, it was his avant-garde experiments in Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism that stirred his soul. Bauer caught the attention of Herwarth Walden, founder of the famed Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin, who mounted 3 solo shows of Bauer's paintings amid exhibitions of works by Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, and other modernist luminaries. In America Bauer's work was introduced to the American public in the early 1920s through the legendary Société Anonyme. Bauer's work was featured in the exhibition bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as early as 1933. Solomon R. Guggenheim became Bauer's champion and patron and purchased more than three hundred works for his collection. A 1937 article in Time magazine cites a Bauer painting as Guggenheim's favorite and pictures the copper magnate sitting proudly in front of it. Guggenheim established a foundation for Non-Objective painting and committed to the construction of the now-famous museum on Fifth Avenue, efforts that can be argued were the direct result of Bauer's ideas." More at http://www.weinstein.com/artists/rudolf-bauer/ undefined

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