465 - Fred Thieler, Abstract Compositions, 2 signed colour lithographs from 1962/64

Fred Thieler, Abstract Compositions, 2 signed colour lithographs from 1962/64 Fred Thieler, 1916 Königsberg - 1999 Berlin, Abstract Composition in Blue and in Red, 2 colour lithographs, sheet sizes 43.5 x 61 cm and 65 x 50 cm, each signed, dated 1962 and 1964, numbered from an edition of 50, one with a light margin, one with a slight crease on the right-hand margin, without a frame About the artist: From 1941, he studied at a private art school run by Hein König in Munich. Due to his Jewish heritage, he worked underground inter alia within the circles of the White Rose and the painter Mac Zimmermann. After the war, he studied under Karl Caspar at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From 1952, he was a member of the ZEN 49 group. Between 1951 and 1953, he lived and worked in Paris, where he met, inter alia, Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages and Serge Poliakoff. From 1959 to 1981, he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1978, he became a member of the Neue Darmstädter Sezession and the Academy of Arts (serving as vice-president from 1980 to 1983).