Mixed media on canvas. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse, with fragments of a label on the center beam. 160 x 125 cm.
- Thieler is considered one of the most important German painters of Informalism. - Explosive color spectacle from Thieler's later creative phase. Color becomes an important dialogue partner. - The impressive composition makes the dynamic progression of color visible. - In the 1950s and 1960s, Thieler participated as an important artist of Abstract Expressionism in documenta II in Kassel and the Venice Biennale.
LITERATURE: Andrea Firmenich/Jörn Merkert/Sigrid Melchior, Fred Thieler. Monographie und Werkverzeichnis. Bilder von 1942-1993, Cologne 1995, p. 400, no. 8/49. Flash Art, vol. 137, issue 11/12, 1987, illu. p. 128. Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, auction June 2, 2006, lot 492 (fig.).