Between 1947 and 1998, Dieter Roth made 524 prints, culminating in one of the richest and most diverse printmaking oeuvres ever. Many are unique prints, created by the inventive manipulation of the various stages in the printmaking process, achieving remarkable editions in which not one print is identical.
The artist used all known—and some newly invented—printmaking techniques including woodcuts (relief printing), etching, engraving, aquatint (intaglio printing), lithography, offset (planographic printing), screenprinting (stencil printing), pressings (objects flattened by vertically exerted pressure), and squashings (objects flattened by horizontally exerted pressure). Often various methods were combined.
Roth’s creativity and ingenuity pushed printmaking beyond all known borders.
Dieter Roth, Small Sunset, 1972, TL37865.2. Photography: Heini Schneebeli © Dieter Roth Foundation, Hamburg
"I hate it if I notice that I like something, if I am able to do something, so that I just have to repeat it, that it could become a habit. Then I stop immediately. Also if it threatens to become beautiful."
Dieter Roth was a sculptor, poet, graphic designer, performer, publisher, musician, and, most of all, provocateur. Born to a Swiss father and German mother in Hanover, Germany, in 1930, he was sent out of Nazi Germany to live in Switzerland with foster parents. He received his training in graphic design in Bern, where he also became interested in avant-garde design and poetry, publishing some of his work in Daniel Spoerri’s magazine material.
(article from Harvard University Musem - http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/exhibitions/featured/eatart/roth.html)
Dieter Roth
New Year's Gift
1954
line etching on parchment, ca. 30 x 21 in.
Published by F. Gygi, Bern, 1955
Photo by Heini Schneebeli
Dieter ROTH
Pain and Sorrow, 1972 (Dobke 262)
Lithography
65 x 93 cm
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