Yellow Glow, 1951

Keilrahmen: 706 x 1049 x 28 mm
Blatt: 701 x 1042 mm

Physical Description: Oil on paper, mounted on canvas

Inventory Number: 17915

Object Number: 17915 Z

Acquisition: Acquired in 2019 as a bequest from Ulrike Crespo from the Karl Ströher Collection

Status: Not on display

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About the Work

Here Fritz Winter painted various irregular overlapping and interlocking colour shapes on a sheet of smooth paper mounted on canvas. The brushwork is for the most part fine and glazed, but in some places the artist created a rich, relief-like texture with pure paint. A dynamic meshwork takes shape between the haptically variegated surfaces, between form and colour. Winter, who was strongly influenced by Paul Klee at the Dessau Bauhaus, thus translated the secret workings of nature, of the world, into an abstract composition.

About the Acquisition

The Städel Museum has the photographer, psychotherapist, philanthropist, and long-time Frankfurt resident Ulrike Crespo (1950–2019) to thank for more than ninety works ranging from classical modernism to American pop art. The paintings, drawings, and prints by Wassily Kandinsky, Otto Dix, Oskar Schlemmer, Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet, Cy Twombly, and others originally belonged to the holdings of her grandfather, the Darmstadt-based industrialist Karl Ströher (1890–1977), who amassed an extensive art collection after World War II.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Yellow Glow

Artist

Fritz Winter

Period Produced

20th century

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Oil on paper, mounted on canvas

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

German

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Signiert und datiert unten links (mit dem Pinsel in Schwarz): fwinter 51

Watermark

Nicht feststellbar

Work Catalogues

Lohberg 1218

Property and Acquisition

Institution

Städel Museum

Departement

Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline: Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright: © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

Acquisition: Acquired in 2019 as a bequest from Ulrike Crespo from the Karl Ströher Collection

Work Content

Motifs and References

Genre

abstraction

Main Motif

Iconclass

Primary

0 Abstract, Non-representational Art
49D32 line (~ planimetry, geometry)
49D43 prism ~ stereometry
22C4(YELLOW) colours, pigments, and paints: yellow

Secondary

49D36 circle (~ planimetry, geometry)
22C4(BLACK) colours, pigments, and paints: black

Research and Discussion

Provenance

Object History: Fritz Winter (1905-1976)

an Karl Ströher (1890-1977), Darmstadt, 1963

Nachlass Karl Ströher, 1977

an seine Enkelin Ulrike Crespo (1950-2019), Frankfurt am Main

Vermächtnis an das Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2019.

Information

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