Eduard Bäumer was born on May 14, 1892 in Kastellaun in the Hunsrück. He was a German painter and graphic artist. After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Frankfurt am Main, he studied from 1908 onwards at the arts and crafts school in Frankfurt am Main with Ludwig Heinrich Jundnickel. Between 1910 and 1914, he attended the Municipal Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main and was a master student from 1919 to 1922. Bäumer was mainly influenced by the Expressionists.
In 1923 he and his fellow student Valerie Feix married and traveled to Italy from 1924 to 1928 in order to study, in particular, nature. In addition to his work for the Ullstein publishing house in Frankfurt and Berlin, he studied from 1927 to 1928 at Johannes Itten's school in Berlin.
After a long stay in Paris in 1930, his new subject painting was influenced by Cubism. In 1933 he moved to Salzburg with his wife Valerie and together they designed children's books. In 1934 Eduard Bäumer was conscripted into the army and the family hid in Pongau until 1944. In 1948 he took over the master class for painting at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna and was appointed professor in 1950. The father of three children died unexpectedly in 1977 in a traffic accident in Munich.
