Fritz Winter. Altenbogge, Germany 1905 -Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany 1976. Fritz Winter was born as the first of eight children in Altenbögge near Unna on 22 September 1905. In 1919 he began an... Read full biography
Fritz Winter. Altenbogge, Germany 1905 -Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany 1976. Fritz Winter was born as the first of eight children in Altenbögge near Unna on 22 September 1905. In 1919 he began an apprenticeship as an electrician and worked as a miner. At the beginning of the 1920s, he made his... Read full biography
Fritz Winter. Altenbogge, Germany 1905 -Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany 1976. Fritz Winter was born as the first of eight children in Altenbögge near Unna on 22 September 1905. In 1919 he began an apprenticeship as an electrician and worked as a miner. At the beginning of the 1920s, he made his first attempts in drawing and painting. In 1927 he applied successfully to the Bauhaus *in Dessau, where he studied for three years under Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer. In 1929 Winter... Read full biography
Fritz Winter. Altenbogge, Germany 1905 -Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany 1976. Fritz Winter was born as the first of eight children in Altenbögge near Unna on 22 September 1905. In 1919 he began an apprenticeship as an electrician and worked as a miner. At the beginning of the 1920s, he made his first attempts in drawing and painting. In 1927 he applied successfully to the Bauhaus *in Dessau, where he studied for three years under Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer. In 1929 Winter participated in the exhibition "Junge Bauhausmaler". He became acquainted with Ernst Ludwig and Erna Kirchner, whom he visited repeatedly in Davos, Switzerland. After his studies, Winter taught at the Pädagogische Akademie in Halle. In 1933 he moved... Read full biography
Fritz Winter. Altenbogge, Germany 1905 -Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany 1976. Fritz Winter was born as the first of eight children in Altenbögge near Unna on 22 September 1905. In 1919 he began an apprenticeship as an electrician and worked as a miner. At the beginning of the 1920s, he made his first attempts in drawing and painting. In 1927 he applied successfully to the Bauhaus *in Dessau, where he studied for three years under Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer. In 1929 Winter participated in the exhibition "Junge Bauhausmaler". He became acquainted with Ernst Ludwig and Erna Kirchner, whom he visited repeatedly in Davos, Switzerland. After his studies, Winter taught at the Pädagogische Akademie in Halle. In 1933 he moved to Munich, and in 1935 to Dieben on the Ammersee in Bayern, Germany. The National Socialists declared his art "degenerate"* and b... Read full biography