Located in Kansas City, MO
Wilhelm Schlote
White Tulips
3D-construction on Hahnemühle Velvet
2016
Edition: 50
Signed and numbered by hand
Size: 8.3×5.7 on 15.7×12in
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1922
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Tags: Wilhelm Schlote, German artist, Children's book author, Cartoonist, Caricaturist, Heinz Mack, ZERO artist group, Albert Schulze-Vellinghausen, Literary critic, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Philosophy studies, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Teacher in higher education, Paris residency, Nice, Cologne, Germany, Children's books, Cartoon postcards, German Youth Book Prize, Académie Calvet, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Chabrol, Magazine publications, Die Zeit, Die Welt, The New Yorker, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Stick figure art
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Wilhelm Schlote (born March 4, 1946 in Lüdenscheid) is a German artist, children's book author, cartoonist and caricaturist.
Schlote grew up in Essen. His first art teacher was Heinz Mack (member of the artist group ZERO), who recognized Wilhelm Schlote's talent for drawing early on. His mentor and friend Albert Schulze-Vellinghausen, who, as a literary critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), was the predecessor of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, was just as philosophically influential. After graduating from high school, Schlote studied philosophy in Bonn until 1968 and then art at the Kunsthochschule Kassel until 1972. From 1973 to 1978 he was a teacher in higher education in Kassel and Hamburg. Simultaneously with the decision to go to Paris, Schlote was offered a professorship at a German art college. In 1978, however, Schlote decided to move to France, where he lived partly in Nice, but mainly in Paris. In 1980 he exhibited for the first time in the Medical Faculty...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Prints