Fritz Winter
Fritz Winter
1905 - 1976
Blau-roter Garten. 1960.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Once more signed, dated, as well as titled on the reverse. Inscribed on the stretcher by a hand other that that of the artist. 80.5 x 90.5 cm (31.6 x 35.6 in). [KA].
• A dynamic, high-contrast composition with a strong, sensually perceptible spatial presence.
• A unique sense of tension created by deliberately placed red and blue contrasts.
• Appearing on the international auction market for the first time (source: artprice.com).
• Winter has been exhibiting in the U.S. since the 1950s and is represented there in, among other venues, two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Works by Fritz Winter are currently on view in the exhibition “Die Nacht berührt die Erde” at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hesse (probably acquired directly from the artist).
Private collection, Hesse (inherited from the above in 2009).
EXHIBITION: Fritz Winter. Zum. 60. Geburtstag, Kulturgesellschaft der Stadt Ahlen, Oct. 24–Nov. 14, 1965; Kunstverein des Kreises Beckum, Sauerland-Museum Arnsberg, Dec. 5–19, 1965, cat. no. 44.
LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter: Leben und Werk, with a catalogue raisonné of the paintings and an appendix on other techniques, Munich 1986, CR no. 2270 (with black-and-white illustration).
Fritz Winter
1905 - 1976
Blau-roter Garten. 1960.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Once more signed, dated, as well as titled on the reverse. Inscribed on the stretcher by a hand other that that of the artist. 80.5 x 90.5 cm (31.6 x 35.6 in). [KA].
• A dynamic, high-contrast composition with a strong, sensually perceptible spatial presence.
• A unique sense of tension created by deliberately placed red and blue contrasts.
• Appearing on the international auction market for the first time (source: artprice.com).
• Winter has been exhibiting in the U.S. since the 1950s and is represented there in, among other venues, two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Works by Fritz Winter are currently on view in the exhibition “Die Nacht berührt die Erde” at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hesse (probably acquired directly from the artist).
Private collection, Hesse (inherited from the above in 2009).
EXHIBITION: Fritz Winter. Zum. 60. Geburtstag, Kulturgesellschaft der Stadt Ahlen, Oct. 24–Nov. 14, 1965; Kunstverein des Kreises Beckum, Sauerland-Museum Arnsberg, Dec. 5–19, 1965, cat. no. 44.
LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter: Leben und Werk, with a catalogue raisonné of the paintings and an appendix on other techniques, Munich 1986, CR no. 2270 (with black-and-white illustration).
