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 display

About the workKarl 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 Kemp

Inventory numberKemp 1083

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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