Watercolor. Unsigned, verso round stamp "Ortelt". Dated in pencil on verso: 1956. inscribed on verso "TnB M 4/32".

Image: 24 x 17 cm. Framed & behind glass : 40 x 32 cm.

Marginal area light browned, some creasing.

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).