Untitled, 1959

Blatt: 175 x 242 mm

Physical Description: Tempera on wove paper

Inventory Number: 17917

Object Number: 17917 Z

Acquisition: Acquired in 2019 as a bequest from Ulrike Crespo from the Karl Ströher Collection

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

Texts

About the Work

Throughout his career, Winter took a rather dim view of the use of controlled chance in the painting process. In this little drawing as well, he placed the individual formal elements very deliberately in response to one another. The red, amorphous form at the lower left accordingly appears again in black, and larger, at the upper right and yet again like a faint echo in the hazy section in between. The artist thus balanced the composition and created a harmonious relationship between the individual pictorial forces.

About the Acquisition

The Städel Museum has the photographer, psychotherapist, philanthropist, and long-time Frankfurt resident Ulrike Crespo (1950–2019) to thank for more than ninety works ranging from classical modernism to American pop art. The paintings, drawings, and prints by Wassily Kandinsky, Otto Dix, Oskar Schlemmer, Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet, Cy Twombly, and others originally belonged to the holdings of her grandfather, the Darmstadt-based industrialist Karl Ströher (1890–1977), who amassed an extensive art collection after World War II.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Untitled

Draughtsman

Fritz Winter

Period Produced

20th century

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Tempera on wove paper

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

German

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Signiert und datiert unten rechts (mit Bleistift): FWinter 59

Watermark

Nicht vorhanden

Property and Acquisition

Institution

Städel Museum

Departement

Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline: Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright: © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

Acquisition: Acquired in 2019 as a bequest from Ulrike Crespo from the Karl Ströher Collection

Work Content

Motifs and References

Genre

abstraction

Main Motif

Iconclass

Primary

0 Abstract, Non-representational Art
49D43 prism ~ stereometry
22C4(RED) colours, pigments, and paints: red

Secondary

22C4(BLACK) colours, pigments, and paints: black
49D36 circle (~ planimetry, geometry)

Research and Discussion

Provenance

Object History: ...

Slg. Matschinsky, München

an Karl Ströher (1890-1977), Darmstadt, 1960

Nachlass Karl Ströher, 1977

an seine Enkelin Ulrike Crespo (1950-2019), Frankfurt am Main

Vermächtnis an das Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2019.

Information

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