clear that while working in "domestic emigration" during the Nazi dictatorship, he had no influence on the vital artistic environment. After 1945 Baumeister played an important role in the development of German and European art. Among the German painters who remained in the country despite the persecution by the National Socialists from 1933 to 1945, only a few succeeded in achieving such pioneering strides toward new contents and forms. Following World War II, he became a spokesman in the debate on Modernism. Regarded as an advocate of "abstract" painting, he was highly regarded by some, while strongly condemned by others. On the occasion of Willi Baumeister's 100th birthday in 1989, Wolfgang Kermer recalled Baumeister's work as a typographer and advertising designer for the first time with an exhibition and a Catalogue raisonné – an ″exciting documentation″ for the Design Magazine form. An important collection of Baumeister’s works is preserved in the Willi Baumeister Archive, which is part of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and in the Sammlung Domnick (Domnick Collection) in Nürtingen. Exhibitions (selected) 1910 Württembergischer Kunstverein (as guest of an exhibition of French painters), Stuttgart, Germany 1927 Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France 1930 Venice Biennale, Italy 1931 Kunstverein Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1935 Galeria Milione, Milan, Italy 1939 Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France 1949 Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France 1950 Zen 49, Central Collecting Point, Munich, Germany 1951 Deutscher Künstlerbund, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin, Germany 1953 Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 1954 Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany 1955 documenta 1, Kassel, Germany 1955 Cercle Volnay, Paris, France 1959 documenta II, Kassel, Germany 1964 documenta III, Kassel, Germany 1965 Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany 1975 Willi Baumeister: Lithographien und Radierungen, gedruckt von Erich Mönch, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart 1979 Willi Baumeister: 1945–1955, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1979 Hommage à Baumeister, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart 1989 Nationalgalerie Berlin, Germany 1989 Willi Baumeister: Typographie und Reklamegestaltung, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (and in 1990 Deutscher Werkbund, Frankfurt am Main) 1999 Willi Baumeister et la France, Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar, France 2000 Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France 2003 Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain 2004 Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany 2004 Willi Baumeister – Karl Hofer: Begegnung der Bilder, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany 2005 Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany 2005 Die Frankfurter Jahre 1928–1933, Museum Giersch, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2005 Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany 2006 Von