Item DetailsGerhard Fietz (German, 1910-1997)

Structural PRessure No. 3, circa 1956

Serigraph on linen

Signed to the lower right

Attribute information label on the verso

pictures part of description.

Dimensions

24.5" W x 19.5" H x 1.5" D

- measures the frame; image measures 18.75" W x 13" H.

Gerhard Fietz (1910-1997) was a German painter, printmaker, professor and representative of non-representational painting. He is considered an important painter of the second half of the 20th century in Germany. Fietz's home and studio, southeast of Hamburg, is now a public art museum.In October 1949 Fietz and other non-objective artists from southwest Germany founded the ZEN 49 association: Willi Baumeister, Fritz Winter, Rupprecht Geiger, Rolf Cavael, Willi Hempel, and the sculptor Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff. As art historical advisors, Dr. Franz Roh, Dr. Ludwig Grote and later, the British art critic John Anthony Thwaites. ZEN 49 competed against traditional representational art, rejecting it as reactionary. The name had been agreed because the East Asian cultural area of ​​Buddhism offered a spiritual basis that met the ideas of the members. The group lasted for almost five years, and other, now well-known artists from France joined them: Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung, and Gérard Schneider. Gerhard Fietz took part in all ZEN 49 exhibitions. Fietz also exhibited at numerous national and international exhibitions, including the 1955 exhibition at the Cercle Volnay in Paris.