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Oil and assemblage on canvas. Signed lower right: FREMUND 61. An excellent example of an abstract composition in which Fremund was reaching his artistic peak in the late 1950s/early 1960s. He composed the picture by placing vertical and horizontal lines into a typical grid against a scarlet background, bringing lightness to the geometric structure by playfully adding wooden objects – colored blocks. A painter, printmaker, stage designer and illustrator, Fremund studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Vratislav Nechleba and later under Vladimír Pukl; his classmates included Robert Piesen, Jiří Martin, Vladimír Vašíček and Jitka Kolínská. However, he was expelled from school in 1949, so he transferred to the Academy of Performing Arts to study under František Tröster. He could start on his own work in the mid- 1950s, and given the absence of contemporary international trends, he and his contemporaries were able to draw on the traditions of Czech modern artists Emil Filla, Josef Čapek and Václav Špála; he also admired the work of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Although his works were often rejected in the 1950s, he was still a highly visible and respected figure; as a painter he had an excellent sense of color and later inclined towards sculptural abstraction. In 1964 he participated in the first exhibitions of the famed Crossroads (Křižovatka) art group; in 1969 he held his first solo exhibition in Rome, but he tragically died in a car accident that same year.