374 - Lothar Quinte, Composition in Yellow and Blue, 2 signed colour silkscreen prints from 1971

Lothar Quinte, Composition in Yellow and Blue, 2 signed colour silkscreen prints from 1971 Lothar Quinte, 1923 Neisse - 2000 Wintzenbach, avant-garde painter and exponent of Op Art. Shown here: Yellow, colour silkscreen print on cardboard, 70 x 50 cm, signed, dated (19)71, numbered 170/500, and Blue, colour silkscreen print on cardboard, 70 x 50 cm, signed, dated (19)71, numbered 124/250, without frame About the artist: Lothar Quinte attended the Kloster Bernstein Art School from 1946 to 1951, initially under the guidance of Hans Ludwig Pfeiffer, and subsequently under HAP Grieshaber. From 1959 to 1960, he was a visiting lecturer in graphic art at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld. From 1960 onwards, he maintained a studio in Karlsruhe. In 1965, he designed the mural for the Stadttheater Bonn, and in 1969 he designed the iron curtain for the theatre in Marburg. In the same year, Quinte moved to Wintzenbach in Alsace, where he set up a studio. In 1974, he created the 11 × 11 metre tapestry series *Corona* and the ‘Iron Curtain’ for the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe. In 1975, he experienced an artistic crisis and undertook a six-month trip around the world, focusing on India and Egypt, before establishing an annual winter studio in Goa, India, from 1980 onwards. In 1977, a rainbow wall was created in the Spektralsaal of the Stuttgart Planetarium based on his design. In 1984, the video *40 Years of Painting: Lothar Quinte* by Mirjam Quinte was released by the Medienwerkstatt Freiburg; in 1994, a television film about Lothar Quinte by Rudi Bergmann was broadcast.