Fred Thieler - Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1958

Mixed media on paperboard

96 x 68 cm / framed 116 x 87 cm
37 x 26 inch / framed 45 x 34 inch

Signed bottom left, dated "Fred Thieler 58"

– with handmade craftsman's frame –

N 9042

9,800 €

Provenance:

Nachlass des Künstlers

Catalogue raisonné:

Auf unsere Nachfrage, warum unser Bild nicht im Werkverzeichnis Firmenich aufgenommen ist schreibt Richard Thieler: "Im WV sind eigentlich nur Leinwandbilder aufgenommen worden. Es gab einige Ausnhamen bei den Spachtelbildern der 50er Jahre. Da hatte man sich darauf geeinigt, die auf Holz aufgezogenen Bilder mit aufzunehmen. Das von Ihnen angefragte Bild ist vermutlich nicht aufgezogen. Es ist ein ganz besonderes schönes Bild meines Vater aus dieser Zeit"  15.12.2021 per Email. 

Exhibitions:

Chemnitz, Ausstellung Gunzenhauser, 2014 

Katalog Galerie Neher, Essen, Blickpukte_2018_Frühjahr, Kunst aus dem 20. Jahrhundert, Ausstellung Jan.-28.4.2018, mit farbiger Abbildung Seite 57

Galerie Neher, Essen, Herbst-Winter 2022/2023, Katalog mit farbiger Abbildung Seite 67

About the work

In 1951 Fred Thieler commenced his studies of graphic art in Paris under the British painter and printmaker Stanley William Hayter. From his experiments with the possibilities of etching, serigraphy and lithography he elaborated an abstract language of form, which "showed parallels to crystalline structures and shaped the style of graphic art and painting over the ensuing years." (1)
Predicated on these experiences, he created  the so–called "palette–knife paintings" during the mid and late 1950s, to which this work also belongs. Working with the palette knife, Fred Thieler energized the rapidly drying screen–printing ilk with constructive, dynamic rhythms: "All these 'palette–knife' works – apart from very few – are relatively small. They are all approximately 1 sq.m. and as the paint dries very quickly, no corrections can be made subsequently. One has to rapidly create something from this paint. One cannot passively react to what materialises on the canvas over a longer period." (2) The artist's rapid modus operandi, action and reaction are clearly discernible in this painting as a spontaneous gesture, and through the application of black, white and red, evoke vibrant dynamic motion.
(1) Zemter, Wolfgang: "Zum Geleit", in: Fred Thieler. Das graphische Werk im Besitz des Märkischen Museums der Stadt Witten, Part 1: Die Radierungen, exh.–cat. Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten 1988, n.p.
(2) Thieler, Fred: "Malen als Positionszeichen. Ein Gespräch mit Manfred de la Motte, begonnen am 30.3.1980 in Beaune auf einer Reise durch Burgund", in: Fred Thieler, ed. by Manfred de la Motte, exh.–cat. Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, Berlin 1983, 137–159, here: 154.

Text authored and provided by Dr. Eva Müller-Remmert, Art Historian

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