Name: "By the sea from behind", original print, edition of 100 unique pieces (97/100)
Brand: Dieter Roth

"By the sea from behind", original print, edition of 100 unique pieces (97/100)

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About the Item

Dieter Roth (1930-1998) was born in Hannover, Germany and grew up in Zürich, Switzerland. He started an apprenticeship as an advertising graphic designer and took private lessons in lithography. From the 1950s his style in his sketches and prints develops to very strict geometric and abstract art, which is constructed by mathematic principles. Very early he also deals with kinetic art in his printmaking and in 1961, already well known for his graphics and books, he received the order to design the poster for the kinetic art exhibition "Bewogen Beweging" from the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherland with international artists like Duchamp, Spoerri, Tinguely and many more. After the exhibition was shown in Kopenhagen and Stockholm as well, Dieter Roth has been stepped up in the first line of the kinetic artists, while he already changed his style and dealed withe symmetries and new printing techniques by combining most of the possibilities given in the spectrum of printmaking. After a teaching assignment in Providence, USA in 1965 he changed his style very radical in the late 1960s. Roth started to experiment with organic decline in his prints by using aliments which are reacting with the paper or cardboard and averting from the classical print-techniques by overpainting his prints with water- and oil colours or edible liquids and goods, like chocolates, cocoa,... In the 1970s Dieter Roth met Karl Schulz and they built their own print studio in a former carpentry wherethey tried to improve the ways to bring Roths sketches on the print carriers in the intaglio printing. In this time he also combined diverse techniques of printing in one work , like offset, lithography, letter-press technique and intaglio printing. From the 1980s on his work became more and more autobiographical in diaries, films and notebooks and he only published a few prints in this time. There are only a few things in this colourful print that actually reveal a person from behind by the sea, as the title promises. In the very centre, there is a head depiction typical for Dieter Roth, with a bowler hat on his head, and in the lower, right-hand corner of the picture, there is a very simply drawn setting or rising sun. The rest of the picture is filled with wild and colourful shapes that rise almost like thoughts from the person's head. Am Meer, von hinten Stencil print (screen), four colours on white cardboard 86 x 61 cm (sheet-size) 109 x 83.5 cm (frame-size) Edition of 100 unique specimens, numbered, dated and signed by hand (97/100) and 25 Artist Proofs Catalogue Raisonné (Edit. Hansjörg Mayer) Nr. 239

Creator:
Dieter Roth (1930-1998, German)
Creation Year:
1972
Dimensions:
Height: 42.92 in (109 cm)Width: 32.88 in (83.5 cm)
Medium:
Cardboard,Screen,Stencil
Movement & Style:
Post-War
Period:
Late 20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Cologne, DE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU134428007812