Untitled

1947

Karl Otto Götz

Associated Names
Karl Otto Götz

Artist, German, 1914 - 2017

The image displays an array of flowing lines and shapes forming a complex abstract composition. On the left side, there are crisscross lines and oval forms resembling an abstract grid. On the right side, there is an entangled structure with interconnected loops and curving lines suggesting an abstracted humanoid figure. The background features a gradient of blue and yellow hues.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color monotype printed in brown, blue-green, violet and yellow on wove white paper, attached to a beige wove support sheet

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.4 × 21.6 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
    support: 35.9 × 25.6 cm (14 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.228

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 15, 2005; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Inscriptions

signed and dated below image, at right, in graphite: K. O. Götz 47

Wikidata ID

Q76556409

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