Fritz Winter
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Fritz Winter (1905-1976) began as a mine electrician in his hometown of Ahlen, was active in the socialist youth, began to paint and wandered through Holland and Belgium, worked underground at night, attended the Realgymnasium during the day to study medicine, his former drawing teacher advised him to apply to the Bauhaus, which was possible even without a school degree. There he studied with Klee and Kandinsky and exhibited at the Ferdinand Möller Gallery in Berlin as early as 1930. He worked with Naum Gabo in Berlin and several times with Kirchner in Davos in 1929-32.
In 1928/29 he decided on his form of "abstraction-création" from the small formats of these three artists to the abstracting two-meter pictures that he saw with Kirchner in Davos, and in just their worlds of form, initially in the very dark tones of his underground world, from which bright colors erupt before and during the Second World War. He consistently tested the abstraction of the 20th century in long series of experiments.