Dieter Roth

"Addicted Tiger as Self of Himself", abstract print and poetry, signed by Roth

1973

Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) was one of the most important german artists of the late 20th century. In 1961 he joined with Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg and Gerhard Richter the class of Karl Otto Götz at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and these four upcoming artists presented their latest works in an in their own initiative curated exhibition to bring the newest art movements from oversea and Paris to Germany. On the invitation cards they printed the terminologies „Pop Art, Junk Culture, Nouveau Realisme, Common Object Painting, Neo Dada, New Vulgarismus, Antikunst, Know-Nothing-Genre“ and they proclaimed for theirselves to be the first artists to show a indepently grown Pop Art in Germany, not just as a copy or American import. But Polke showed right from the beginning an ironic distance to the sociocritical style of his combatants, that will run through his entire Ouevre. Influenced by the Fluxus and Neo Dada scene around Joseph Beuys, Daniel Spoerri, Dick Higgins...

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 ...

Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) was one of the most important german artists of the late 20th century. In 1961 he joined with Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg and Gerhard Richter the class of Karl Otto Götz at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and these four upcoming artists presented their latest works in 1963 in their self-curated exhibition to bring the newest art movements from oversea and Paris to Germany. On the invitation cards they printed the terminologies „Pop Art, Junk Culture, Nouveau Realisme, Common Object Painting, Neo Dada, New Vulgarismus, Antikunst, Know-Nothing-Genre“ and they proclaimed for themselves to be the first artists to show Pop Art, independently developed in Germany, not just as a copy or an American import. But Polke showed right from the beginning an ironic distance to the sociocritical style of his combatants, that will run through his entire Oeuvre. Influenced by the Fluxus and Neo Dada scene around Joseph Beuys, Daniel Spoerri, Dick Higgins and others in the early 1960s, Polke developed his own style characterized by an anarchic mind and esprit. Similar to the Pop Art Polke searched for the aesthetic in the trivial but here too he simultaneously disavowed the trivial through irony. Very typical for Polke are the famous grid images, known from newspaper printings, where we have horizontal, uniform lines of small dots and by combining certain dots there arises a form. By using perforated sheets and airbrush he could overlay more monochrome grids to create vibrating images and he often played in the printing process with enforced mistakes and errors to disassemble the firm surface of an image to a process of decomposition. Next to the irony and anarchy other keywords to his works are heterogeneity, poly-perspectivity and multivalent metamorphoses in which every reality could be something possibly different at the same time. A world where everything is connected, not by fundamental unity, but by fragmentary dispersion. Because there is no one true reality, he transfers his works in an intermediate state of transformability. Handkuss (1995) Four-coloured Offset- and Screenprint on Hahnemühle-Büttencardboard 75 x 55 cm (sheet-size) 87.4 x 66.7 cm (frame-size) Original wooden frame (white) by the workshop of the Gallery Heinz Holtmann, Schüller, Eifel, Germany Edition of 75 and XX Artists Proofs, signed, dated and numbered (32/75) by hand Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany Cat. Raisonné (Edit. von der Osten) Nr. 107 The central two figures in this print are the man in the right kissing gently and polite the hand of the woman in the central left side. They are drawn by single white lines on the black background. In the same style of drawing and merging with the womans body there are more scribblings and the viewer can sense an old mans face...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mimmo Rotella, Le Luci della citta 2005 Slashed silk-screen print on canvas Edition of 60 Signed and numbered on the lower left 124 x 86 cm Mimmo Rotella is an Italian artist and poet known for his collages made from torn advertising posters, which he calls "double décollages". Born October 7, 1918 in Catanzaro, Italy, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples before settling in Rome in 1945 and getting closer to Lettrism. Alongside Raymond Hains...

Offset Lithograph, Limited Edition from an edition of 175. Signed in pencil, lower right and framed in a handmade gold leaf frame. Based on an original Pastel drawn in Fontainebleau, during the summer of 1921. This neoclassical head...

Oil on canvas, signed and dated (lower left), 30cm x 24cm (41cm x 34cm framed). A prodigious talent from an early age, Pagliacci took part in the Venice Biennale in 1929 or 1930 at...

Oil on canvas, signed (lower left), 59cm x 49cm (72cm x 62cm framed). An Australian artist, who studied at the Royal Academy in London in the 1930s, Abbott became highly accomplish...

Guillaume Corneille screen prints 3 pieces + poem of Bert Schierbeek in portfolio Corneille was one of the founders and one of the most important representatives of the Cobra movemen...

French women's fashion design from 'La Revue Paris Mode' a Parisien fashion periodical, illustrated by Bryn Smith. 370mm by 270mm (sheet)