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Movement. Concrete art, Op Art, Fluxus, Maximalism. Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist who gained recognition for his diverse body of work, which included artist's books, editioned prints, sculpture, and creations from found materials, including rotting food stuffs. [1] He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot.
- Childhood
- Early Training and Work
- Mature Period
- Late Period
- The Legacy of Dieter Roth
Dieter Roth was born Karl-Dietrich Roth in Hanover, Germany, to German mother Vera Roth and Swiss father Karl-Ulrich Roth, a merchant and businessman. Dieter was the eldest of three Roth brothers. He attended school in Hanover up until the age of thirteen, spending his summers in his father’s country as part of a scheme set up by the charity Pro Ju...
After leaving home in 1953 and abandoning commercial art, Roth began creating work that was first exhibited in 1954. Roth embraced a diversity of creative projects during this time, including exhibiting in local galleries, performing jazz trumpet in local music sessions and conducting some retrospectively important creative experiments, such as his...
Until the 1960s, Roth had very much been working in Constructivist mode, something which changed completely when he came across Jean Tinguely’s work Homage à New Yorkin Basel. Tinguely was making sculptures associated with the ‘Auto-Destructive art’ movement, in which the artworks would perform and then destroy themselves, liberating themselves fro...
Into the 1980s the obsessively productive Roth began to relax his pace of production. As Klaus Beisenbach has noted, his son Björn became a very important collaborator after the two of them worked on a series of flower paintings together. Roth was, by this point, critically acclaimed and recognised as a major post-war artist. As a result, he featur...
Having appointed the German art historian Dirk Dobke the head curator at the Dieter Roth Foundation earlier in 1998, Roth was able to begin the process of collating and organizing his life’s work in the Schimmelmuseum in Hamburg before he died. The breadth and geographical spread of his practice has consistently posed a difficulty for archivists an...
- German-Swiss
- April 21, 1930
- Hanover, Germany
- June 5, 1998
Biography. Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist who gained recognition for his diverse body of work, which included artist's books, editioned prints, sculpture, and creations from found materials, including rotting food stuffs. He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot.
Oct 19, 2016 · As a teenager during World War II he ended up in a hotel in Switzerland that housed a number of refugees, including artists and actors and poets. He himself was reading the great poets and started writing his own verse at a young age. But what’s really incredible about Roth is the way he started to totally reinvent what a book could be. When ...
Nov 26, 2018 · For this reason, drawing quickly and drawing with both hands had a fundamental significance for Roth: it reduced the time of reflection and annulled the linearity of writing. From 1970, Alighiero Boetti was developing the possibility of dissolving the tangle of hand and thought through ambidextrous and symmetrical writing, according to the motto: “Writing with the left hand is drawing.”
Monograph. Dieter Roth (German/Swiss, 1930–1998) was an important artist of the second half of the 20th century, best known for his books, sculptures, installations, and use of food. Born in Hanover, Roth split his early childhood years between Switzerland and Germany, before settling in Berlin in 1947. He moved to Iceland in 1957, isolating ...
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Engaged in many facets of artistic production, from painting and drawing to writing poetry and music, Dieter Roth (Swiss, born Germany, 1930–1998) never settled with one style or in one place for long. Among the few constants in Roth’s output was his engagement with editioned mediums—books, prints, and multiples—which he made, beginning ...
