Graphite drawing. Graphite monogram. Circa 1958.

Sheet: 29.6 x 21 cm. Framed & behind glass : 41.2 x 31.5 cm.

German painter and graphic artist; counts among the artists of the "lost generation": "Karl Ortelt, who created his main work in Weimar under the specific conditions of an artistic existence in the GDR, countered the circumstances of life with a work in which the confrontation with existential questions of existence remained the criterion of his artistry." (Quote from invitation text of the Hebecker Gallery in Weimar for the exhibition 2017).

Literature : Cf. Hebecker (2001), fig. 16.