Metaphysical thoughts that playfully struggle for perfection seem to have been achieved in the consistent monochrome chosen in the year of death, 200. Similar to how an end point was formally reached with the circle 25 years earlier, the color was now perfect simplicity. The question arises as to whether monochrome images and objects, as they were conceived by Yves Klein ("le monochrome") at the age of 27 back in 1950, mean maturity and perfection or monotony. In any case, Lothar Quinte's oeuvre shows great diversity and interesting development potential. It began with informal painting in the 50s, led 10 years later into a consistently constructive phase, with increasing age it switched to veiled pictures, which contain transparency and transcendence, as the artist himself had put it, and after the long trip around the world switched to a colored one Dripping and drumming periods and ended after rectangular color fields in monochrome. These were understandable and plausible developments that are of historical importance.