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Fritz Glarner (1899–1972) was one of the most internationally acclaimed Swiss Concrete artists of his generation. He left his familiar circle of Zurich Concrete artists to emigrate to the USA in 1936, where he engaged in a lively exchange of views with such artists as Piet Mondrian. The “Dining Room” Glarner designed for Nelson A. Rockefeller is based on the principle of his “Relational Paintings”: the alternation of dark and light, small and large areas, and the distribution of color, create a balanced interplay of innate compositional qualities – proportion, rhythm, repetition, and variation – that is, on the whole, more intuitive than systematic.
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