Häuser am Wasser, 1950 – 1959

Title

Häuser am Wasser (Original Title)

Title Translation

Houses by the water

Painter

• Fritz Fischer

Period Produced

• 20th century

School

• abstract painting

Object Type

• painting (artwork)

Physical Description

Oil on cardboard

Material

• card

Technique

• oil

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Contemporary Art 1945-present

Collection

• Städtische Galerie

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

© Dr. Fritz-und-Ilse-Fischer-Stiftung

Acquisition

Acquired in 1959 as transfer of the artists' grant

Genre

• abstraction

Main Motif

• colour
• trace
• area
• building

Primary

• 0 Abstract, Non-representational Art
• 22C4 colours, pigments, and paints
• 49D43 prism ~ stereometry
• 41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings

Secondary

• 21D water (one of the four elements)