Fritz Glarner (after) - Relational Painting Tondo 43 - Offset Lithograph - 91x70 - Achenbach licensed print 1987

Offset lithograph after Fritz Glarner (*)
Reproduction of the work “Relational Painting Tondo N43” created by Glarner in 1956.
Luxury edition on Fine Art cardboard (250g)
Published by Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Authorized print with copyright and legal serial number.
Large format.

- Sheet dimensions: 70.5 x 90 cm
- Year: 1987
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and is thus in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be insured with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transport insurance up to the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

Fritz Glarner (July 20, 1899 in Zurich — September 18, 1972 in Locarno) was a Swiss-American painter. Glarner was one of the leading proponents of the so‑called Concrete Art, an artistic movement whose roots trace back to the painters of De Stijl and the principles of the Bauhaus. He was a pupil of Piet Mondrian, heavily influenced by Mondrian’s theories on “dynamic symmetry.” As he developed as an artist, his works became increasingly influenced by Mondrian’s neoplastic theory. His inclination toward non-representational art had begun as early as 1929 in Paris, where he was part of the Abstraction-Création group. Glarner adopted Mondrian’s motif of organizing colors and simplified shapes into an architectural pattern. He introduced a diagonal into Mondrian’s strict geometric aesthetic of horizontal and vertical lines, creating new principles of composition, yet equally systematic, which he called “relational painting.” As Mondrian did, Glarner limited his color palette to primaries—red, yellow, and blue. He expanded Mondrian’s “black line” into a wide range of grays, used both as lines and, like the primaries, as geometric color areas. Many of his works are circular format, with his characteristic relational principles arranged within a circle. Glarner’s additions and alterations of structure and color to Mondrian’s style gave vitality and spatial dimensions to his works. 24 of his works belong to the Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano, Switzerland. A mural by Glarner is included in the collection of The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, New York.