Art (1945-contemporary) > Abstract Art Post-War Fritz Winter - Biography

Fritz Winter
1905 - 1976
Ohne Titel. 1971.
Mixed media. Oil, graphite, India ink or scriptol.
Signed and dated in the lower right. On light cardboard. 61 x 43 cm (24 x 16.9 in), size of sheet. [CH].
• An appealing interplay of glazed areas of color, calligraphic lines, omissions, and strong light-dark contrasts.
• Fritz Winter's works were displayed at documenta I and III in Kassel as early as 1955 and 1964.
• As a leading representative of German Informel, he exhibited in the United States as early as the 1950s, including in several exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Today, his work is part of important museum collections, including the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, South Germany.
LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter. Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, CR no. 2804 (illu. in b/w).
In very good condition.
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