Gatja Helgart Rothe

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Gatja Helgart Rothe , mostly GH Rothe , (* 1935 in Beuthen , Province of Upper Silesia as Helgart Ute Riedel , † 2007 in Geneva ) was a German artist .

Life

The father, Harry A. Riedel, was a master goldsmith and artist goldsmith. After the mother and five children had fled , the family found themselves in Rheda-Wiedenbrück in East Westphalia, where the father settled down in 1946 as a goldsmith and jeweler. After finishing school in 1953, Rothe completed an apprenticeship in goldsmithing in his father's studio in Gütersloh and Bielefeld . After completing her apprenticeship, she studied painting from 1956 at the Pforzheim College of Design , which was then still called the Art and Crafts School, under Curt Rothe , whose wife she became in 1958.

After completing her studies, she worked as a painter in the Würm district of Pforzheim and received the Villa Romana Prize in 1968 after an exhibition in Karlsruhe . It is linked to a scholarship and study at the Villa Romana in Florence. Numerous trips followed until she settled in New York in 1972 and later in Carmel-by-the-Sea . In 1988 and 1992 she was nominated to represent the United States as an artist at the Olympic Games in Seoul and Barcelona.

In New York she also found her working medium in mezzotint graphics, a technique from the 17th century that she developed to achieve aesthetic perfection and color. Since 1999 the artist has lived in Europe again. Her entire work of painting, abstract oeuvre and mezzotint is in a large collection in her brother's gallery in Ratingen .

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Rothe mainly works with the mezzotint technique. There is only one printing plate on which the colors are applied at the same time. Rothes skill is the mesh of transparent forms, which is achieved through the alternating priming and engraving in several levels and gives her art the unmistakable transparency and dimensions. The colors are oil paints, which are all worked into a plate at the same time in hours of work with the ball of the hand. The impression takes place on previously soaked handmade paper “Arches 88”.

The topics include the entire spectrum of life and nature with the aesthetic highlights dance, horses, landscape, roses as symbols for feelings, feelings, reality, dreams, philosophy and evolution.

Rothes works are now in public collections such as the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the French National Library .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1966: Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe
  • 1968: Villa Romana Prize Florence
  • 1969: Art Association Gütersloh
  • 1969: Münster State Museum
  • 1975: Abbott Galleries McLean, Chicago
  • 1975/77/79/81: Gallery Yolanda Chicago
  • 1977: Studio 53 New York
  • 1978: Edward Weston Gallery New York
  • 1982: Hanson Gallery New York
  • 1983: Hammer Galleries New York
  • 1984/85: Mezzotint Inc. San Francisco
  • 1986: Old Town Hall Wiedenbrück
  • 1993: Bruno Goller House in Gummersbach
  • 1994: Marstall Castle Neuhaus Paderborn
  • 1998: Eltville electoral castle on the Rhine
  • 1999: House Vorst in Leichlingen
  • 2001: Orangery Schloss Rheda in Rheda-Wiedenbrück
  • 2002: Electoral castle in Eltville on the Rhine
  • 2003: Artexpo NEW YORK
  • 2006: Emirates Towers Dubai

Literature (selection)

  • Max Bense: From the pictures of Helgart Rothes . University of Stuttgart, 1966
  • Max Bense: Epic study of an Epicurean double game . Hake Verlag, Cologne, 1967
  • Klaus Gallwitz: Helgart Rothe-Villa Romana '68 . Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1968
  • Pierre Restany: GH Rothe - Master of the Mezzotint. Catalog raisonne . Hammer Publishing, New York, 1983
  • Petra Zapp: GH Rothe . Oberbergische Volkszeitung, Gummersbach
  • Horst Weidmann: GHRothe. Art of mezzotint . Hüthig Verlag, Heidelberg, 1994
  • Friedrich Heckmanns: GHRothes Mezzotintos - in the tradition of Dürer . Self-published by Riedel Art Gallery, Ratingen / Düsseldorf, 1994
  • Schöttler: The master of the mezzotint . Rheinische Post, 1995
  • Thomas Frei: Linked Revelation . Pforzheimer Zeitung, 1996
  • Unique in Germany. GH Rothe in Ratingen . Rheinische Post
  • Uli Tückmantel: Provocation through beauty . Rheinische Post, 1997
  • Thomas Frei: I am mezzotint - GH Rothe . Pforzheimer Zeitung, 1997
  • Kathrin Schüller: Unmistakable graphics . Rheinische Post
  • Monika Klein: An almost forgotten technical mezzotint . Rheinische Post, 1999
  • Franz Littmann: On the mountain - A search for traces in Würm . Starck Verlag, Pforzheim 2011
personal data
SURNAME Rothe, Gatja Helgart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothe, GH; Riedel, Helgart Ute; Grothe, Helgart Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bytom , Upper Silesia Province
DATE OF DEATH 2007
Place of death Geneva