Picture "Untitled" (Unique piece)
Picture "Untitled" (Unique piece)
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unique piece | pastel on paper | framed | size 77 x 60 cm
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Picture "Untitled" (Unique piece)
Pastel on paper. Motif size/sheet size 58.5 x 42 cm. Size in frame 77 x 60 cm as shown.
About Fritz Winter
(1905-1976)
Fritz Winter is considered one of the most outstanding artists of the German post-war abstract movement.
After his studies at the Bauhaus with Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer, Winter painted exclusively abstract from around 1930 onwards. From the 1950s and 1960s onwards, Fritz Winter began to explore the newer trends of Art Informel and colour field painting and developed his own basic artistic form concept, which is a central element in all his works. During this period, he also took part in the first three documenta exhibitions in Kassel.
Works of art by Fritz Winter can be found in numerous renowned museums, such as the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung in Munich and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt as well as many private collections.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.