Winter, Fritz o.T. (abstract composition). 1960. oil on wove paper. 17 x 24 cm. Signed and dated. - Mounted in spots on support and framed under glass (unopened). - Apparently in exceptionally good condition. The colours fresh, powerful and expressive. Not with Lohberg. - Provenance: - Mario Samoticha Collection, Dortmund. - Acquired from the estate of the collector and art critic Heiner Stachelhaus in 2002. - Since his participation in documenta I in 1955, Fritz Winter has been regarded as one of the leading artists of German post-war modernism and a prominent representative of Art Informel. Our small-format, colourful composition dates from the artist's main phase of work. Colour forms are layered on top of each other in a balanced way, with powerful impulses coming from the brushstroke, which is clearly freer and more experimental than in the early work of the 1950s. At the same time, very early influences from Winter's time at the Bauhaus under his teachers Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee come to the surface of his paintings - they are landscapes of colour, expressions of the innermost - which Fritz Winter shows expressively.