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Plate (folio 2) from GEH DURCH DEN SPIEGEL
1955 · Lithograph, printed in black
irreg. composition 12 9/16 x 8 5/16" (32 x 21.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Fritz Winter
German, 1905
PaintingBauhausConstructivismAbstract Art
Representation
None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
5
Works in Collection
11
Assets Indexed
3
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Bauhaus
- • Constructivism
- • Abstract Art
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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German Art of the 20th Century
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1957
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Recent European Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956–1957
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The New Decade: 22 European Painters and Sculptors
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955
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Bauhaus: 1919�1928
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938–1939
About
Why this artist matters now
Fritz Winter was a German abstract painter and sculptor whose geometric compositions emerged from constructivist principles and his experience of postwar reconstruction. Working primarily in oil and mixed media, he developed a vocabulary of interlocking planes and bold primary colors that conveyed movement and spatial tension without representational reference. Winter's work bridges early modernism and the postwar European abstraction that dominated the 1950s and 1960s.
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Bauhaus
Medium
Painting
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In collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
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