Oil on canvas. Signed andd ated in lower left. Once more signed, titled and inscribed with the work number on the reverse. 130 x 97 cm.
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- Ritschl is one of the most important representatives of abstract painting in Germany. - He exhibited at documenta 1 in 1955 and at docuementa II in 1959, the same year he was awarded the Art Prize of the Künstlerbund exhibition - In 1955, he had his first major retrospective at the Museum Wiesbaden. - Works by the artist can be found in the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover.
LITERATURE: Wolf Mirus, Otto Ritschl. Das Werkverzeichnis 1919-1976, Munich 2017, no. 1972/17 (illu.).