Oil on cardboard. Signed and dated in the lower right. 74.5 x 100 cm. , the full sheet. [AW].
• Large-format composition by the important protagonist of German Informalism.
• Particularly balanced combination of dynamic gesture and contemplative color fields.
• The artist participated in documenta 1 (1955), documenta II (1959), and documenta III (1964) in Kassel.
• As early as the 1950s, works by Winters were shown in two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter. Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, cat. no. 1982 (illustrated).