Picture "Tolpo IV" (1996) (Unique piece)
Picture "Tolpo IV" (1996) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | gouache on paper | framed | size 41.5 x 51 cm
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Picture "Tolpo IV" (1996) (Unique piece)
Gouache on paper, 1996. Signed. Motif size/sheet size 24.5 x 34.5 cm. Size in frame 41.5 x 51 cm as shown.
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About Karl Otto Götz
1914-2017
Karl Otto Götz is one of the most prominent painters of the German Art Informel movement. With his paintings, drawings and graphics, which are similar to the Écriture Automatique of the Surrealists, he proved to be a master of informal art.
Not only black, white and grey characterise K. O. Götz's work, but also the themes of contrast, movement and structure. He created abstract compositions with a broad brush, quick movements, smudged them with a squeegee and recombined the layers with another brush.
Doris Schmidt wrote in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1957: "The spontaneous becomes most visible in K. O. Götz in its significance of the temporal sequence of the picture, the process of painting pushed to the limit of what can be measured in time."
Karl Otto Götz's students are incredibly successful: Gotthard Graubner, Sigmar Polke and above all Gerhard Richter. But their teacher K. O. Götz was barely seen for a long time.
Götz, who celebrated his 100th birthday in 2014, is experiencing a rapidly growing appreciation by the media, the industry and museums. The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst in Bonn honoured him with a major retrospective. Karl Otto Götz's works are in great demand at international exhibitions because, right up to his late work, they are extraordinarily modern but at the same time avant-garde and the colours seem to explode.
Karl-Otto Götz died in 2017 at the age of 103.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a genre of modern art that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions, and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, for the first time, a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.