François FIEDLER - "Héraclite. Composition6"
Original etching on Arches paper.
Hand signed and numbered 6 in pencil.
Publisher Adrien Maeght, Paris, 1973.
Total dimensions 28 x 19 cm.
Image size: 22 x 14 cm.
Very good condition. Never been framed.
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François Fiedler (1921–2001), born Fiedler Ferenc, was a Czechoslovakia-born French painter and printmaker. He was an artist in the Aimé Maeght stable, which included Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró.
After receiving a Masters in Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Budapest, François Fiedler moved to Paris. To make money, he made sanctioned reproductions of famous paintings for museums, as well as small figurative paintings of his own.
One day while looking at a pot of house paint, crackled by the sun, he decided to reproduce this process on canvas. After this move, he ceased his figurative painting, finding expression in his new technique.
Joan Miró saw one of Fiedler's paintings in a gallery and was impressed. He sought out the artist, and so met Fiedler; they became close friends, and Miró presented him to the prominent gallerist and art dealer Aimé Maeght. Through Maeght, he became close with Giacometti, Braque, César, Ubac, Tal-Coat, Miró, Chagall, and many other artists of this era.
During his long career, Fiedler was regularly featured in salon shows alongside his contemporaries, and his works were a regular feature in the Maeght Foundation publication Derrière le miroir.
As many young collectors did not have the money to buy an oil painting, Fiedler tried to find a way to convey in etchings that which he had achieved in oils. He started a series of etchings, some in very limited editions.
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