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Gatja Helgart Rothe
German-American artist (1935–2007)
Gatja Helgart Rothe | |
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| Born | Helgart Riedel (1935-03-15)March 15, 1935 Beuthen, Poland |
| Died | August 3, 2007(2007-08-03) (aged 72) |
Gatja Helgart Rothe (March 15, 1935 – August 3, 2007) was a German-American artist known for her printmaking, especially mezzotint.
She was also a draftswoman and painter.
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After living and working in Europe, she briefly traveled through South America before moving to New York City in the 1970s and later, California. Her commercial success was primarily based on mezzotints and paintings commissioned and handled by galleries, dealers, and private collectors in the United States, Europe and Japan.
Career
In 1956, at age twenty-one, Riedel hitchhiked to southern Germany, where her brother was studying design at the art academy in Pforzheim. She enrolled in painting and drawing classes there and met her future husband, Curt Rothe, a painting professor and post-impression