"Hoffnung auf Regen", 1974; acrylic on canvas, 55 x 75cm.
Found at: artnet.de
Hoping for kind permission to use the reproduction in memory of a great artist.
It is his birthday today; let's celebrate an artist who was not 'just' a craftsman; he also was a master of acrylic painting.
When this was a new technique, Otte experimented with it. His sons remember a stone flag covered with layers and layers of acrylic paint that sat out in the garden in wind, rain, frost, and snow – placed there in order to see how the material would wither.
With "Hoffnung auf Regen" Otte had mastered the technique; transparent layers of colour, 'altmeisterlich', as the Germans would say. And a fine example of Otte after his 'abstract turn'.
There is always landscape involved in those abstract works and forms hovering freely above the horizon.
As a regular to the small provincial town of Rauris with its institutions of Literaturtage and Malertage, Otte made friends with Austrian writer H. C. Artmann who in his medium of prose and poetry was a close relation in his perception of the world.
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