Zürich Bellevue

This oil painting depicts Bellevue Square in Zurich during the 1940s. At the center of the composition, one of the city’s iconic blue-and-white trams approaches the viewer, lending the scene a sense of movement and vitality. It is a lively cityscape that emphasizes atmosphere, light, and the rhythm of urban life rather than photographic accuracy. The loose brushwork and cool color palette, accented with ochre and soft blues, give this early work a fresh, spontaneous quality while already revealing Fritz’s assured sense of color, light, and space.