Bidspirit auction | Karl Otto Götz

Karl Otto Götz - Karl Otto Götz 1914 Aachen - 2017 Wolfenacker - ”Cover for Cobra 5 - luxury edition” - (1950) Gouache/paper. Front: 21.5 x 30 cm. Reverse: 21.5 x 30 cm. Overall size (folded): 21.5 x 60 cm. Signed and dated on the verso: Götz (19)50. In booklet with an attached lithograph by Pierre Alechinsky and a woodcut by Otto Hofmann. Sporadic scratches. Slight signs of age and wear. - Cf. the online catalog raisonné of the artist's works on paper: https://ko-goetz.de/papierarbeiten-uebersicht/mappe-zu-cobra-5-1950/ - Enclosed: ”Meta 7”. November 1951. with an original color woodcut by the artist (title page). Incomplete (without the linocut by S. Stolpe). Remainder. Remains of glue. - Enclosed: Lithograph by Karl Otto Götz from 1953, signed in print. Minimal adhesive residue. Götz is an important representative of Art Informel in Germany. Because of his abstract style of painting, he was banned from exhibiting from 1933 to 1945. In 1949, Götz became a member of the COBRA group. This work is one of the very few known hand-painted covers by the artist for the luxury edition of the magazine ”Cobra 5”, published in 1950.