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Fritz WinterWW-1953-073177
1953·Oil paint and wash, over touches of graphite, on ivory wove paper·50.2 × 70 cm (19 13/16 × 27 9/16 in.)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1953
- Dimensions
- 50.2 × 70 cm (19 13/16 × 27 9/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Fritz Winter
Artist

Fritz Winter
Painting
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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- Fritz Winter
- Year
- 1953
- Dimensions
- 50.2 × 70 cm (19 13/16 × 27 9/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1953-073177
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
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