Following his apprenticeship as a sculptor at the venerable Münsterbauhütte (Cathedral Workshop), Anselm Baumann studied as a guest at the Karlsruhe Art Academy. He held a scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and founded the company "Ostpool," which produces works for artists such as Tobias Rehberger and Anne Imhoff.
Anselm Baumann's works are represented in important private and public collections, including the Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern; the Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg; the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; and the Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main, collection Mobiliar, Bern
