Sale: 611 / Day Sale, Dec. 05. 2026 in Munich → Lot 100902400
100902400
Fritz Winter
Die Waldfenster, 1961.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
100902400
Fritz Winter
Die Waldfenster, 1961.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Fritz Winter
1905 - 1976
Die Waldfenster. 1961.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Once again signed, dated, as well as titled on the reverse. Inscribed on the stretcher by a hand other than the artist’s. 130.5 x 97.5 cm (51.3 x 38.3 in). [KA].
• Vibrant color modulation in Fritz Winter’s unmistakable visual language.
• A striking fusion of vividly colored rectangles, simultaneously interrupted by contrasting, floating black brushstrokes.
• In Fritz Winter’s works from the 1960s, color takes center stage.
• Prior to the creation of this work, Winter had already been represented twice at documenta in Kassel: documenta 1 (1955), documenta II (1959), and again in 1964 at documenta III.
• Works by Fritz Winter are currently on view in the exhibition “Die Nacht berührt die Erde” at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Private collection in Hesse (presumably acquired directly from the artist).
Private collection in Hesse (inherited from the above in 2009).
LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter: Leben und Werk, with a catalogue raisonné of the paintings and an appendix on other techniques, Munich 1986, CR no. 2328 (with black-and-white illustration).
1905 - 1976
Die Waldfenster. 1961.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Once again signed, dated, as well as titled on the reverse. Inscribed on the stretcher by a hand other than the artist’s. 130.5 x 97.5 cm (51.3 x 38.3 in). [KA].
• Vibrant color modulation in Fritz Winter’s unmistakable visual language.
• A striking fusion of vividly colored rectangles, simultaneously interrupted by contrasting, floating black brushstrokes.
• In Fritz Winter’s works from the 1960s, color takes center stage.
• Prior to the creation of this work, Winter had already been represented twice at documenta in Kassel: documenta 1 (1955), documenta II (1959), and again in 1964 at documenta III.
• Works by Fritz Winter are currently on view in the exhibition “Die Nacht berührt die Erde” at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Private collection in Hesse (presumably acquired directly from the artist).
Private collection in Hesse (inherited from the above in 2009).
LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter: Leben und Werk, with a catalogue raisonné of the paintings and an appendix on other techniques, Munich 1986, CR no. 2328 (with black-and-white illustration).
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