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work the Nazi government banned and purged from German museums in 1937. In 1939, with the onset of World War II, the artist was drafted into the German army and sent to the
Eastern front, fighting in Poland and Russia. He nonetheless produced art during periods of leave and in 1944 executed his Triebkräfte der Erde (Driving forces of the earth), a major series of 45 paintings on paper that symbolically represent the struggle of anti-Fascist artists and intellectuals in Germany. In May 1945, shortly before the armistice, the Russian army took Winter as a prisoner of war and detained him in Siberia until 1949. His long-time companion and future wife Margarete Schreiber-Rüffer ensured that his paintings were exhibited in his absence.
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1950) in Munich. They exhibited together until 1957 and represented the German counterparts to
Tachisme (from the French tache, for blot or stain), or Art Informel painters. Zen Buddhism greatly influenced their practice, which privileged a calligraphic painting style. In 1950 Winter received his first postwar solo exhibition in Munich and five other German cities, and visited Pierre Soulages and Hans Hartung in Paris. Winter exhibited at the Pittsburgh International (now
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Several German cities mounted major retrospectives to mark the artist's 60th birthday in 1965. Winter slowly withdrew from the art scene in the late 1960s, retiring from his long-standing academic position in Kassel in 1970 and returning to DieĂźen am
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