Herbert Fiedler lived in restless times; in Paris he experienced the flowering of the avant-garde, in Berlin the tumultuous artistic diversity of the nineteen twenties, in The Netherlands the war years and the post-war controversy between abstract and figurative art. His personal experiences were recorded in his richly varied oeuvre, in his very personal style of painting.

Despite war and poverty, artistic solitude and family crisis, Fiedler always kept painting. For him painting was more a necessity than a profession or outlet. Always and everywhere he was making sketches and doodles. Characteristic is the continuing search for a new imagery, his work showed influences...