The letter or firelight

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The letter or firelight

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Otto Goetze (sometimes Goetz) (1868-1931/45) was a painter and etcher in Berlin at the turn of the 20th century. He studied at the Leipzig and Munich Academies and from 1908 specialised in etching and drypoint. Relatively little known today, he was in San Francisco by 1930 and his date of death is usually given as 1931 or 1945. This drypoint print reveals Goetze as technically outstanding - to the point of slick - as a practitioner. The appeal is immediate if superficial - but why not? A beau...

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Format

Image

Date created

1900-1914

Creator

Otto Goetze

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/41475

Related subjects

Women / Interiors / paper / ink / prints / drypoints / works on paper / drypoint / British / Germany / Mrs Isobel Wright / Harold Wright

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