460 - Fred Thieler

Fred Thieler 1916 Königsberg – 1999 Berlin – Untitled – (1966) Gouache and collage on cardboard. 74.5 x 99.5 cm, 86 x 111 cm (dimensions including frame). Signed and dated lower left: F Thieler / (19)66. Numbered in pencil lower left: Z93682. Fully visible, mounted in a display frame under glass. Small loss in the upper right. Isolated tears. After 1945, Thieler studied under Carl Caspar at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In the 1950s, he traveled to the Netherlands and later to Paris, where he worked at “Atelier 17” with Stanley William Hayter. He had contacts with Hartung, Poliakoff, and Soulages. Back in Munich, he joined the avant-garde group “ZEN 49” and became a member of the “Neue Gruppe München” in 1953—in 1955, he participated in the first postwar exhibition of German art in Paris. Fred Thieler was appointed professor at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1959. He has been a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and the Neue Darmstädter Sezession since 1978, and a member of the International Association of Art, Paris, since 1979.