Preliminary Study for Giverny I, 1986
ArtistKarl Otto Götz,
Aachen
1914–2017
Rheinland-Pfalz
Drucker*inManfred Hügelow,
Berlin
1940–2017
Lithograph on laid paper
State/print versionTrial proof
Image dimensions60 × 78,5 cm
Sheet dimensions70 × 90 cm
Status
not on displayKarl Otto Götz taught painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1959 to 1979. His works are characterised by swirls of dark paint as well as harsh black and white contrasts. In the 1980s, he began to execute his gestural sweeps with bright colours. This resulted in a group of over 100 works in various techniques – the "Giverny series" – named after the garden of the French painter Claude Monet. Götz appreciated how Monet’s water lily paintings, which depicted part of that garden, only lightly rendered the form of flowers. In Monet’s work, as in Götz’s, no motif pushes itself to the fore; everything interlocks to form a balanced visual fabric.
AccessionKemp Collection Foundation 2011
Provenance1986 Willi Kemp (Köln 1927 - 2020 Düsseldorf) erworben vom Künstler; 2011 Stiftung Sammlung Kemp im Kunstpalast erworben durch Schenkung von Willi KempInventory numberKemp 1083
Contact
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