Composition, Karl Otto Götz
Karl Otto Götz
Composition
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Karl Otto Götz

Composition, 1953


Blatt
535 x 376 mm
Physical Description
Watercolour and gouache on fine-grained wove paper
Inventory Number
SG 3011
Object Number
SG 3011 Z
Status
Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

Texts

About the Work

This watercolour still exhibits hints of the geometric forms that dominated the composition of Karl Otto Götz’s Red Pennant (Städel Museum, Inv. No. 17108). Now, however, the artist no longer joined the individual elements to form fantastical figures, but broke through their clear boundaries. In the process, he used a technique he had discovered by chance in the summer of 1952: he applied the paint to the paper and then lacerated it with a knife or squeegee. He thus managed “to make the self-contained formal elements dissolve and, so to speak, explode” [1]. [1] K. O. Götz. Erinnerungen und Werk, Volume Ia, Düsseldorf 1983, p. 515.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title
Composition
Draughtsman
Period Produced
Object Type
Physical Description
Watercolour and gouache on fine-grained wove paper
Material
Technique
Geographic Reference
Production Reason
Label at the Time of Manufacture
Signiert und datiert unten rechts (mit der Feder in Schwarz): Götz 53
Captions Added Later
Verso Stempel der Städtischen Galerie, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2371c)
Watermark
  • Nicht vorhanden

Property and Acquisition

Institution
Departement
Collection
Creditline
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Picture Copyright
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Foto: U. Edelmann

Work Content

Motifs and References

Genre
Main Motif

Iconclass

Primary
  • 0 Abstract, Non-representational Art
  • 49D43 prism ~ stereometry
Secondary

Research and Discussion

Provenance

Object History
Karl Otto Götz (1914-2017)
erworben mit Mitteln der Frankfurter Künstlerförderung von der Städtischen Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, 1953.

Information

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Last update

13.03.2024