Oil. Lower right monogrammed and dated. On cardboard, firmly laid on a plastic board. 49 x 66.2 cm. , the full sheet. [CH].
- Until 1930, the Bauhaus in Dessau was the center of the young Fritz Winter's life: he studied under, among others, Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. - One year before our work was created, Fritz Winter left the Bauhaus and began his artistic career as a freelance artist. - Despite financial difficulties, he continued to work on new forms of artistic expression with great creative drive. - Early, pioneering work in which Winter staged symbolic-abstract forms that are rich in contrast against a black background - as it will become characteristic of his later "light paintings". - Fritz Winter is regarded a leading representative of German Informalism.
Accompanied by a confirmation of authenticity issued by Helga Gausling, Fritz-Winter-Haus, Ahlen, from July 7, 2006 (in copy).
LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Hamburg, 303rd auction, Post War II, October 28, 2006, lot 926 (fig.).