Variation of Botticellis Venus
Friedrich Karl Gotsch (Pries/Kiel 1900 - Schleswig 1984)
Lot-No. 167
Oil/canvas, 71,5 x 100,5 cm, up. le. monogr. FKG, on the reverse sign. a. dat. F. K. Gotsch 1965 as well as titled 'Botticelli-Variation der Venus'. - Literature: Cat. rais.: Goeritz/Leuba 722, with dimensions slightly differing. - Provenance: From the collection of a Schleswig-Holstein Industrialist. - German landscape painter. G. was pupil of H. Ralfs in Kiel, a. studied at the Dresden Academy under O. Hettner a. O. Kokoschka since. 1920. Together with Hilde Goldschmidt he studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris in 1926/27, followed by study trips to the USA, to Paris, Italy a. Munich. After WW II, when he lost most of his oeuvre, he settled in St. Peter-Ording on the shore of the North Sea. 1949-51 he taught at the 'Baukreis', an art school founded by A. Fiedler in Hamburg. In 1971 the F.-K. Gotsch trust was founded. Among his prizes is the Villa Romana award.
Friedrich Karl Gotsch: Variation of Botticellis Venus
Friedrich Karl Gotsch (Pries/Kiel 1900 - Schleswig 1984)
Variation of Botticellis Venus
Lot-No. 167
Oil/canvas, 71,5 x 100,5 cm, up. le. monogr. FKG, on the reverse sign. a. dat. F. K. Gotsch 1965 as well as titled 'Botticelli-Variation der Venus'. - Literature: Cat. rais.: Goeritz/Leuba 722, with dimensions slightly differing. - Provenance: From the collection of a Schleswig-Holstein Industrialist. - German landscape painter. G. was pupil of H. Ralfs in Kiel, a. studied at the Dresden Academy under O. Hettner a. O. Kokoschka since. 1920. Together with Hilde Goldschmidt he studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris in 1926/27, followed by study trips to the USA, to Paris, Italy a. Munich. After WW II, when he lost most of his oeuvre, he settled in St. Peter-Ording on the shore of the North Sea. 1949-51 he taught at the 'Baukreis', an art school founded by A. Fiedler in Hamburg. In 1971 the F.-K. Gotsch trust was founded. Among his prizes is the Villa Romana award.