Dieter Roth

Berlin 2 from German Cities (Deutsche Städte)

1970

One from a series of five screenprints over offset lithograph

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Roth appropriated the imagery for German Cities from black-and-white postcards featuring banal views of landmarks in four cities in Germany. Keeping them true to scale, he reproduced these photographs in an orderly five-by-five grid. Next, he obscured each source image by covering it with a nearly opaque layer of ink, solid except for a shape taken from one of the pictured city’s famed landmarks, such as Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate or Munich’s Frauenkirche. In the grid of twenty-five images, the silhouette of the landmark is purposefully misaligned, matching up only once.

Gallery label from

Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth, February 17–June 24, 2013.

Medium One from a series of five screenprints over offset lithograph
Dimensions composition: 22 5/8 x 31 7/16" (57.5 x 79.8 cm); sheet: 23 5/8 x 33" (60 x 83.8 cm)
Publisher Edition Tangente, Heidelberg
Printer Staib & Mayer, Stuttgart(offset), Karl Löw, Stuttgart (screenprint)
Edition 100
Credit Patricia P. Irgens Larsen Foundation Fund
Object number 1268.2008.1
Department Drawings and Prints

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