Etching in sepia on laid paper. Pencil signature. [1972]. Copy: 2/35, blindstamped "edition rothe".

Plate: 22 x16 cm, sheet: 53.5 x 39.5 cm.

German painter, he counts among the most important representatives of German post-war abstraction. He was one of the first German artists to be able to show his work abroad as early as the mid-1950s. "I find explanations completely superfluous. If a picture does not touch the viewer immediately, then something is missing." (Quote: ES, www.stiftungskunst.de).