About the Work
The lines become untangled in their vertical striving, growing upwards like mighty plant shoots. Graphic elements criss-cross the area of colour, forming cells of colour, becoming a painting in themselves. Fritz Winter enlivens his rather statically two-dimensional painting with a gestural dynamic. Winter was one of the protagonists of post-war abstraction and a founding member of the ZEN 49 group. While the references to landscape and abstraction in Winter's earlier works still balance each other out, in the early 1950s he resolutely separated himself from any kind of link to the physical world. His abstract pictorial language, the structure striving for order, allegorise the laws on which the visible world is based but which are hidden from our eyes. Winter encountered Informel art, the spontaneous conquest of the image surface as an action field, with controlled design decisions and a recognisable pictorial order.
