Mann und Frau vor den Wellen. 1968.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right monogrammed. 95 x 150.5 cm (37.4 x 59.2 in). [AW].

• Dynamic composition with color elements detached from the subject.
• Friedrich Karl Gotsch – one of the expressionists of the lost generation.
• From 1921 to 1923 one of the few master students of Oskar Kokoschka.
• The artist's works include: in the Buchheim Collection, Bernried, and the Petit Palais Museum in Geneva.

PROVENANCE: Private collection.
Private collection Lower Saxony (acquired in 1997).

LITERATURE: Peter Goeritz/Marion Leuba, Friedrich Karl Gotsch 1900-1984. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Neumünster 1993, no. 849 (fig.).
Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 57th auction, Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, May 31, 1997, lot 300 (color illu.).