Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Signed again on the reverse, inscribed with the location and “Rot (komendes)”. 94.8 x 168 cm.
[MH].

• A particularly striking example of Winter’s outstanding mastery of form and color.
• As early as the 1950s, Winter exhibited in the United States and participated in two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• With his participation in documenta I (1955), he became one of the leading representatives of the German Informel.
LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter. Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, CR no. 1247 (illustrated in black and white). -- Karlheiz Gabler, Fritz Winter: Werke aus den Jahren 1949 bis 1956, Marbach catalog no. 147-581, no. 245, p. 61 (with illustration and depicted on the title page; with a label on the back of the stretcher).

Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1974/75, cat. no. 35 (illustrated). Fritz Winter. Ölbilder von 1928-1960, Galerie Elke und Werner Zimmer, 1977 (illustrated). Fritz Winter, Städtische Galerie Haus Seel, Siegen, 1977 (illustrated). Fritz Winter, Galerie Utermann, Dortmund, 1982 (illustrated and frontispiece)

Galerie Marbach, Bern, Switzerland (with a label on the reverse of the stretcher). Fritz Winter House, Helga Gausling, Ahlen (with a label on the reverse of the stretcher). Galerie Elke und Werner Zimmer, Düsseldorf (with a label on the reverse of the stretcher). Galerie Thomas, Munich (1985, with a label on the reverse of the stretcher). Private collection, Hesse (acquired from the above in 1985, in the family’s possession since then)

In good condition. Some rubbing caused by framing, partially professionally retouched. A few minor retouches. 3 slightly larger blemishes that have been retouched. With barely noticeable, very isolated craquelure. Edged circumferentially with textile tape. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the aid of a UV light source, and to the best of our knowledge and belief.