Before the Glow, 1950

ArtistFritz Winter, Bönen 1905–1976 Herrsching

Oil on canvas

(H x W)77,3 × 92,5 cm

Status

on display, room 027

About the workDark colours dominate this composition. A faint light shines in the midst of the darkness and promises hope. The work represents the artist’s fresh start after the trauma of the destruction of the Second World War. Fritz Winter had visited Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Davos as a young man in the 1920s and was inspired by Kirchner’s attempts to transcend Expressionism using abstract means. Along with Willi Baumeister and Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Winter became one of the three most influential painters in Germany in the immediate post-war period.

AccessionAcquisition 1951

Provenance1951 angekauft vom Künstler

Inventory number0.1973.236

Abstraction

Contact

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