Peter Baer

Peter Baer

(b. 1924 Berlin, Germany – immigrated to Great Britain 1936 – d. 1996 London, England)

Walking About, 1985 Lithograph 72.5 x 57 cm Signed and dated (lower right) ‘Peter Baer 85’ Ben Uri Collection

Walking About demonstrates Baer’s inventive transformation of the urban landscape through the medium of print. Peter Baer was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and fled to England with his family in 1936, studying at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1948–50). In the 1950s he was associated with the ‘Kitchen Sink’ movement, exhibited at the Beaux Arts Gallery and made etchings at Birgit Skiöld’s Print Workshop in Charlotte Street. He went on to work for the Curwen Press and became an influential and inspirational teacher of printmaking at Hammersmith (later Chelsea) School of Art (1970–1989).