Ohne Titel. 1936.
Mixed media. Oil and wax chalks on paper.
Lohberg 664. Monogrammed and dated in lower right. On creme Ingres laid paper (with watermark). 63.5 x 48.5 cm (25 x 19 in), the full sheet. [JS].

• Outstanding early composition, which, owing to its repertoire of forms and its translucid weightlessness, anticipates key elements of Winter's famous cycle "Triebkräfte der Erde" (Driving Forces of the Earth, 1944)
• Early documents of Winter's masterly orchestration of gently superimposing crystalline forms over a dark earthen ground
• In this work Winter realized a composition characterized by an inner glow and metaphysic presence that is comparable with the cycle "Treibkräfte der Erde" from 1944
• Winter showed works in the USA in two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as early as in the 1950s.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany (before 1981).
Galerie Thomas, Munich.
Collection Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt a. M. (acquired from aforementioned).

EXHIBITION: Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich 1981, with illu. (folding leaflet).
Bauhaus-Künstler, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar / Museum Wiesbaden / Bauhaus Dessau, 1993/94, cat. no. 146, with illu. on p. 109.
Auf Papier - Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Deutschen Bank, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a. M., March 3 - April 30. 1995 / Berlinische Galerie , Berlin, May 18 - July 2, 1995 / Museum der Bildenden Künste. Leipzig, August 10 - October 8, 1995, cat. no. 214, pp. 344-355, with full-page illu.
Man lebt im Wirken der Schöpfung. Fritz Winter zum 100. Geburtstag, Kunst-Museum Ahlen, September 10, 2005 - January 29, 2006.
Blind Date Istanbul, Sabanci University Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, September 8 - November 1, 2007.