Walter Dexel studied in Munich from 1910 to 1914. He became director of the Kunstverein in Jena in 1916. From 1917, his painting showed expressionist characteristics, and it evolved towards Cubism in the 1920s. In 1921, his art was in line with Constructivism; from 1922, Dexel became an abstract painter. His compositions, always based on the horizontal and the vertical, but also, later, on obliques, cannot however be confused with those of the works of the De Stijl movement. He also worked with the particular technique of “fixed under glass”, which he was fond of until the end of his life.
