THE NIGHT TOUCHES THE EARTH

How do contemporary witness accounts and artistic abstraction interact in times of dictatorship and war? Based on the newly accessible estate, a central phase of Fritz Winter's work is retold on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death. Trained by Klee and Kandinsky at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Winter was unable to find exhibition opportunities in Germany after 1933. From 1937 onwards, his art was considered degenerate. In his largely non-representational art, oriented towards natural phenomena, he found powerful and moving forms of expression for the ‘fate of the times’.