Kothe, Fritz

(9/26/1916 Berlin- ) (Germany)

   Painter. Trained as painter's apprentice, then at the Staatliche Akademie fur Graphische Kunste in Leipzig and the Graphische Fachschule in Berlin. He struggled through much of his career, not being accepted during the Third Reich nor into the 1950s. He gained notice with surrealistic dream images and collages.

   Reproductions: Lian; 1975; oil; Sommer, 1981: p. 18 .

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 8: p. 38.