Or, as another web site put it, Fiedler, After World War II,
...settled in France,[leaving...] behind both his native country and figurative painting...[and] immersed himself in
discovering abstract art. He was discovered by Miró, who saw one of his canvases in a gallery window, who introduced him to the legendary dealer and publisher, Aimé Maeght and to his artists such as Chagall, Braque and Giacometti. Miró called him “the painter of light”, he shared his own ateliér with Fiedler in the early years. Miró recognized the characteristic, threefold nature of Fiedler’s talent – his complete mastery of techniques, his passionate, innovative spirit and playful handling of materials which led Fiedler to a very rich oeuvre. ....He soon developed what was to become his signature style: and infinite possibility for the play of light and shadows on the canvases. .... [Soon] his works were regularly featured alongside those by major artists of 20th-century modern art, such as Braque, Chagall, Calder, Chillida, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Miró, Matisse, Picasso, Riopelle and Tápies....Fiedler['s]...own painting process... he called “controlled automatism”...
[According to critic Octave Nadal, “François Fiedler, after silence”, (1983)]....."The true invention of
the informal in painting, the non form is .... the renewal of painting [that] occurred towards the end of the figurative techniques that, through successive exhaustion and destruction, had prepared for the absolute nakedness, the leap into the space. Fiedler understood this intuitively. The instinct, the sagacity which have guided him always in his discoveries. In this he was, he is a painter, and a great painter. Without worrying about the diverse and multiple ways that were opening then, he has followed this technical discovery for two or three decades, alone, with continuity and constancy, in the discontinuous and in the non figurative.” ...Francois Fiedler may be a lesser known artist, today, but we would remedy that.
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