WINTER, FRITZ
1905 Altenbögge - 1976 Herrsching

Title: "Bewegung aus Weiss".
Date: 1952.
Technique: Oil on hessian.
Measurement: 95 x 97cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: FWinter 52. Additionally titled and signed centre verso: Bewegung aus Weiss Winter.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


Provenance:
- Galerie Marbach, Bern (label)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the previous in 1972)

Exhibition:
- Kunsthalle Basel, 1959
- IKI. Internationaler Markt für aktuelle Kunst, Düsseldorf 1972 (label)

Literature:
- Lohberg, Gabriele: Fritz Winter - Leben und Werk, mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, cat. rais. no. 1354, ill.
- Marbach-Verlag (ed.): Fritz Winter - Werke aus den Jahren 1949-56, catalogue Marbach no. 147-581, Bern 1968, cat. rais. no. 347, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Deutsche Künstler der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Basel, 1959, cat. no. 123


- For 50 years in private ownership
- Dynamic, gestual composition with strong colour contrasts
- From one of the most intense creational phases of the artist
- In the 1950s Wunter has already exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.