Skip to main content
Collections Menu
Composition
Composition

Composition

Artist (1905 - 1976)
Date20th century
MediumLithograph on paper
Dimensions55.9 x 71 cm
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, 1954. © The Estate of Fritz Winter.
Object number1054
DescriptionThis is a three colour planographic print (lithograph) on paper.

During 1927 - 30 Winter attended the Bauhaus and studied under Klee, Klandinsky and Schlemmer. In the late 1930s the National Socialists declared his art 'degenerate' and banned him from exhibiting his works. 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.
On View
Not on view
Snow in County Down
Letitia Marion Hamilton
c. 1937
The Age of Bronze
François-Auguste-René Rodin
c. 1876-1877
Miss Maud Gonne
Sarah Henrietta Purser
1890
Eulogy to the Blank Page
Gavin Murphy
2010
The Ninth Hour
Mainie Jellett
1941
Exiles
Patrick Hennessy
1943
October
Frank Joseph O'Meara
1887
Lavacourt under Snow
Claude Monet
c. 1878-1881
Towards Night and Winter
Frank Joseph O'Meara
1885
The Widow
Frank Joseph O'Meara
1882
Study of an Old Woman
Frank Joseph O'Meara
c. 1887