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Fred Thieler, attr., Abstraction Informal composition in black, red, white and blue, impasto painting in palette knife technique, oil on paper, indistinctly signed and dated "[19]58" lower right, inscribed "F. Thieler" on the reverse, craquelure, framed behind glass and mat, mat opening approx. 38 x 27.5 cm. Artist information: actually Fritz Wilhelm Ernst Richard Thieler, called himself Fred Thieler, German painter and graphic artist, important representative of Art Informel (1916 Königsberg - 1999 Berlin), from 1937 initially studied medicine at the Albertina Königsberg, military service in WW2 in Poland and France, 1941 in Berlin. In 1941, because of his Jewish mother, he was discharged from military service and forbidden to continue his medical studies; persecuted as a half-Jew, he became a student trainee for a Munich lighting and photo studio and at the same time a pupil at Hein König's private painting school in Munich, In 1942, he evaded a Gestapo summons by going underground, subsequently active together with Mac Zimmermann in the resistance against the Nazi regime in the circle of the "White Rose", 1946-50 studied at the Munich Academy under Karl Caspar, where he turned to abstraction, 1951-53 studied in Paris, where he was a student of Stanley William Hayter at "Atelier 17", socialised in Paris with Hans Hartung, Serge Poliakoff and Pierre Soulages, in Berlin from 1952 member of the group "Zen 49", from 1953 member of the "Neue Gruppe München", 1954 admission to the Deutscher Künstlerbund, 1959-81 professorship at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Berlin, 1972-73 visiting professor at the "College of Art and Design" Minneapolis, 1976-83 representative of the Federal Republic of Germany at the International Association of Art and its Vice President in 1979, 1978 member of the New Darmstadt Secession of the Academy of Arts, 1980-83 Vice President of the Academy of Arts, received various honours such as the Lovis Corinth Prize Regensburg in 1985 and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1985. Class, active in Berlin, source: Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", "Neue Deutsche Biographie" and Wikipedia.

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Fred Thieler, attr., Abstraction Informal composition in black, red, white and blue, impasto painting in palette knife technique, oil on paper, indistinctly signed and dated "[19]58" lower right, inscribed "F. Thieler" on the reverse, craquelure, framed behind glass and mat, mat opening approx. 38 x 27.5 cm. Artist information: actually Fritz Wilhelm Ernst Richard Thieler, called himself Fred Thieler, German painter and graphic artist, important representative of Art Informel (1916 Königsberg - 1999 Berlin), from 1937 initially studied medicine at the Albertina Königsberg, military service in WW2 in Poland and France, 1941 in Berlin. In 1941, because of his Jewish mother, he was discharged from military service and forbidden to continue his medical studies; persecuted as a half-Jew, he became a student trainee for a Munich lighting and photo studio and at the same time a pupil at Hein König's private painting school in Munich, In 1942, he evaded a Gestapo summons by going underground, subsequently active together with Mac Zimmermann in the resistance against the Nazi regime in the circle of the "White Rose", 1946-50 studied at the Munich Academy under Karl Caspar, where he turned to abstraction, 1951-53 studied in Paris, where he was a student of Stanley William Hayter at "Atelier 17", socialised in Paris with Hans Hartung, Serge Poliakoff and Pierre Soulages, in Berlin from 1952 member of the group "Zen 49", from 1953 member of the "Neue Gruppe München", 1954 admission to the Deutscher Künstlerbund, 1959-81 professorship at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Berlin, 1972-73 visiting professor at the "College of Art and Design" Minneapolis, 1976-83 representative of the Federal Republic of Germany at the International Association of Art and its Vice President in 1979, 1978 member of the New Darmstadt Secession of the Academy of Arts, 1980-83 Vice President of the Academy of Arts, received various honours such as the Lovis Corinth Prize Regensburg in 1985 and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1985. Class, active in Berlin, source: Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", "Neue Deutsche Biographie" and Wikipedia.

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