Black premonitions

The year is 1937. For many artists, the situation of modern art in Germany is hopeless. They are persecuted, despised and destroyed, and their works are removed from public exhibition spaces. This is the year Fritz Winter was also banned from painting and exhibiting because he identified with modernism. The former Dessau Bauhaus student was therefore unable to pursue his profession nor could he exhibit his work. His work is defamed as "degenerate art". In this context, his earlier abstract painting "The Scaffolding" from 1933 has a frightening effect. A prophetic glimpse into the near future? From 1931 onwards, dark colours combined with abstract forms based on geometry appear in Winter's work. The artist only displayed his serial works to the public after the end of the Second World War.