rose fountain. 1995.
Synthetic resin, dispersion on canvas.
No longer in Melchior. Signed and dated in lower right. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. 180 x 130 cm (70.8 x 51.1 in).
Stretcher with fragments of an exhibiton label. [JS].
• Fred Thieler is a protagonist of German Informalism.
• Thieler's abstract compositions are characterized by a strong gestural and impulsive application of the colors.
• Thieler painted his large-size canvasses on the ground before he put them on a stretcher.
• Thus Thieler emancipated his immaterial sensation. which finds clear expression here, from the classic confinements of the rectangular panel picture.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.

"Thieler never pursued the path of representationalism, as he was less concerned with the realization of an idea than with the vision of a spontaneous, open and homogeneous and thus immaterial space of sensation that we mnight call picrture today [..]"
Dieter Honisch, Fred Thieler die Frage nach dem Bild, in: Andrea Firmenich/Jörg Merkert (eds.), Fred Thieler. Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Cologne 1995, p. 51.

In good condition. Canvas slightly creased.
The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of an ultraviolet light and to the best of knowledge.