Artist
Fred Thieler
Artist
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Fred Thieler is an important representative of German Informel. Essential for an understanding of Thieler's work and his artistic development is "his striving both for creative freedom and for a free and open reception of his painting by the viewer. For Thieler, painting is liberation from constraint as well as an expression of freedom and assertion of his own position. Under this premise, he also rejects an unambiguous interpretation of the picture and negates any intention of wanting to exert an influence on the viewer." (Eva Müller-Remmert, curator). It is against this background - after the early, still representational works of the 1940s - that Fred Thieler's rapid turn towards abstract, gestural-dynamic painting, which irrevocably took place in the course of the 1950s, must be seen, and which not least represented a liberation from the restrictions experienced in the Third Reich. In 2014, retrospectives will be held at the Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz Collections, and the MKM Museum Küppersmühle Moderne Kunst, Duisburg.
