Background
Fritz Winter was born on September 22, 1905, in Altenbögge (now part of Bönen), Unna, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was the first of eight children of a coal miner's family.
Germany
Fritz Winter studied at Staatliches Bauhaus.
Hamburg, Germany
Fritz Winter worked as teacher at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg in 1955.
Kassel, Germany
Fritz Winter worked as professor at the Art University Kassel from 1957 - 1970.
Fritz Winter was born on September 22, 1905, in Altenbögge (now part of Bönen), Unna, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was the first of eight children of a coal miner's family.
In 1927 Fritz Winter applied successfully to the Bauhaus in Dessau, where he studied for three years under Klee, Kandinsky and Schlemmer.
In 1919 Fritz Winter began an apprenticeship as an electrician and worked as a miner. At the beginning of the 1920s he made his first attempts in drawing and painting. After his studies Winter taught at the School of education (Pädagogische Akademie) in Halle. In 1933 he moved to Munich and in 1935 to Dießen on the Ammersee. The National Socialists declared his art "degenerate" and banned him from exhibiting his works.
Fritz Winter was drafted in 1939 and sent to the eastern front. He was captured by the Russians shortly before the end of the war and not released until 1949. During the war he drew the so-called "Feldskizzen" in small sketchbooks, which prepared his famous series "Triebkräfte der Erde".
Immediately after his return Fritz Winter was co-founder of the group "Zen 49" and soon joined the European avant-garde movement. Elaborating his works of the 1930s, which were made under the influence of the Bauhaus, Winter developed his own pictorial language, which set him apart from the Informel.
In 1955 Winter began teaching at the University of Fine Arts (Landeskunstschule) in Hamburg and two years later he was appointed professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Art University) in Kassel. In the same year, and again in 1959, he exhibited at the "documenta" I and II.
In 1959, he fell ill as an after-effect of his war injuries. Fritz retired from his chair in Kassel in 1970 and returned to Diessen on the Ammersee
Abstrakte Komposition
1959Untitled
1950Untitled
1960Mit Rot
1969Kreisend vor Violett
1970In der Erde
1951Kleiner Garten
1961Untitled
1953Heller Garten
1960Farbaquatinta 3
1967Rot von Unten
1968Untitled
1971Vertikal
1966Komposition mit rotem Bogen
Screenprint 11
1950Farbradierung IV
1951Schwarz vor Grau und Gelb
1954Komposition mit rotem Fleck
1960Roter Bogen
1970Rot vor Blau
1966Rot-vertikal
1967Vertikal 2
1964Heiter
1950Farbradierung VI
1951Untitled
1952Blau-Rot-Vertikal
1967Kommendes Blau
1966Komposition in Rot und Blau
Siebdruck 6
1950Felder
1963Untitled
1960Untitled
1964