Karl Otto GÖTZ(1914-2017,German abstract painter) / Typed le - Lot 415

Karl Otto GÖTZ(1914-2017,German abstract painter) / Typed letter signed by himself, 2 pages in-4, headed with his name,Frankfurt(Germany), August 1, 1952, toCamille BRYEN(1907-1977, French painter and member of the Mouvement de l'Abstraction Lyrique), in French: Superb text on the Avant-Garde painter and her difficulties in emerging in Germany - On the subject of Camille Bryen's participation in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Galerie Franck, Götz makes it clear that Mr. Franck is responsible, "I'm only the inspiration behind this gallery" - "Our work as an initiator for the avant-garde is becoming more and more hopeless because of the political restoration that systematically ignores or cancels our work and prevents all important exhibitions so that small, independent, modern private galleries are no longer in danger of exhibiting the avant-garde" - "It's only the Zimmergalerie-Franck that systematically exhibits young people who have something to say. And it's Franck who always puts the money into this mechanism and sells very little" - "The other three private modern galleries in Germany have stopped burning their fingers and occasionally exhibit engravings or lithographs by Miro, Picasso and Braque, things that have been too well known for a long time in all countries" - "We look upon this work of exhibiting this stuff in Germany as a hero's deed! When the really interesting youngsters are exhibited, the public ignores them or dismisses them as déjà vu, imitation, pastiche after the great Cubists or Dadaists....! You see, my dear friend, the difference between so-called avant-garde art and the art that came out of the First World War is not known here. It's mainly the critics who don't know anything, because they're in such a desperate social situation that they can't travel to foreign countries to get their bearings, and the newspapers don't help them in this respect; on the contrary, the editors deliberately leave their critics in this prehistoric state, so as to go along with reactionary politics" - "It's a bit of a disgusting situation...!Very encouraging for our dear Bryen" - "Franck and I are more and more fascinated by your drawings and I think that if you take away two or three more oils, it would be a great success in our circle here, which radiates through the gallery's publicity in all the cities of Germany" - Edouard Jaguer [also a painter of Abstraction Lyrique] wrote to him that he was going to join Bryen and that they would come together to Frankfurt.