Sale: 548 / Contemporary Art Day Sale, Dec. 08. 2023 in Munich Lot 100


100
Fritz Winter
Das Innen, 1933.
Oil on paper, laid on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400
Sold:
€ 22,860 / $ 24,460

(incl. surcharge)
Das Innen. 1933.
Oil on paper, laid on canvas.
Lower left monogrammed and dated. Signed on the reverse. 200 x 146 cm (78.7 x 57.4 in). [AW].

• Skillfully balanced composition with exciting accentuation.
• Great technical finesse: Using brush and palette knife, Winter creates a special suggestive power.
• Winter began his artistic career at the Bauhaus in Dessau with, among others, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky as professors, and shortly afterwards became friends with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
• The artist participated four times in the documenta in Kassel (1955, 1959, 1964, posthumously 2017)
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PROVENANCE: Galerie Thomas, München (gallery label on the reverse).
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1984).

EXHIBITION: Fritz Winter. 146 ausgewählte Werke aus den Jahren 1924 bis 1938, Galerie Marbach, Bern, 1978, cat. no. 97 (color illu. p. 90 and on cover; exhibition label on the reverse).
Fritz Winter, Galerie W. Utermann, Dortmund, March 24 to late April 1982 (color illu.).

LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter. Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, no. 483 (illu.).




100
Fritz Winter
Das Innen, 1933.
Oil on paper, laid on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400
Sold:
€ 22,860 / $ 24,460

(incl. surcharge)