Oil on canvas. Signed in lower right and somewhat illegibly dated. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. 70 x 60 cm. . [EH].
- A luminous composition that gains its particular tension from the deliberate use of red contrasts. - With his participation in documenta I (1955), he became one of the leading representatives of German Informalism and abstract post-war modernism. - From October 2023 to January 2024, the major exhibition “Fritz Winter - documenta artists of the first hour” was hosted by the Neue Galerie in Kassel.
We are grateful to Dr. Gabriele Lohberg for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter. Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, no. 2723 (illu. in b/w).