LOT 63 Fritz Köthe (1916 Berlin - 2005 ebenda) - 'Rot über Rot...
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Fritz Köthe (1916 Berlin - 2005 ebenda) 'Rot über Rot', oil on canvas, 21 cm x 25 cm, monogrammed, dated 1981, additionally signed, dated and titled on the reverse, with some minor stainingThe painter and commercial artist Fritz Köthe was among the leading proponents of the Pop Art and Photorealism movements in Germany. As a traveller between east and west, painting and graphic art, he experienced his first artistic success in the 1960s when he began painting exceedingly realistic close ups of advertising motifs in the manner of the American pop artists. In his monograph on the artist, Heinz Ohff writes of how Köthe transformed the "trite, mundane surrealism that surrounded him - and us - each day like a second nature" in high-contrast, hyperrealistic compositions. In his later works, Köthe often combined hyperrealistic painting with illusionistic elements designed to create the impression of a collage, like here in "Rot über Rot", "where lips painted in paper give way to a real pair of sensuously painted lips".
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