Spätsommer. 1960.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse of the canvas. 97 x 135.5 cm (38.1 x 53.3 in). [AW].

• A varied and expressive depiction with select color contrasts.
• Winter elevated the dense weave of various color expressions to a synesthetic experience.
• Since participating in document I (1955), he has been considered one of the leading representatives of German Art Informel and Abstract Post-War Modernism.
• Winter has had exhibitions in the United States since the 1950s and has featured in two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.

PROVENANCE: Fritz Winter Foundation, Munich (inv. no. 164).
Galerie Stangl, Munich.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1990).

EXHIBITION: Fritz-Winter-Haus, Ahlen (with an exhibition label on the reverse of the stretcher).

LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter. Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, no. 2268 (illustrated).