With the exhibition Fritz Winter. Paths to documenta (1949-1955), Galerie Henze and Ketterer is paying tribute to one of the most important representatives of German post-war modernism. Curated by Patrick Urwyler, the show highlights key creative years of the artist, whose work Composition in front of blue and yellow caused a sensation in 1955 as the central exhibit of the first documenta I and represented the provisional high point of Winter's remarkable career. The exhibition traces Fritz Winter's artistic path from the Bauhaus period through the trauma of the war to his international breakthrough - accompanied by key figures such as Winter's "master" Paul Klee, his manager Margarete Schreiber-Rüffer and his Bernese gallery owner Hedwig Marbach.

At the heart of the exhibition are 12 paintings from 1954/55, complemented by rarely shown works on paper, which vividly demonstrate the important artistic developments of this period. Fritz Winter's works are an expression of an unshakeable artistic will, borne by a deep connection to nature, form and creative energy.

The exhibition celebrates Fritz Winter's work as a symbolic figure of the new beginning that marked documenta I and provides a fascinating insight into the genesis of abstraction after 1945.