50s
In the early 1950s Lothar Quinte founded a screen printing workshop in Reutlingen. He printed book covers and posters for others to make a living. My own works were created as single sheets or in very small editions. Unfortunately there are no more prints or photos of it. With the beginning of gesture and veil pictures from 1958 to 1962, Quinte no longer printed serigraphs, but made a series of etchings and a few lithographs, especially at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld, where he was a visiting professor. In 1963, with the beginning of color field painting, the great era of serigraphs began, which lasted until 1978. At first he printed himself, later he was always there when new prints were made and mixed his colors himself.
Serigraphs were created with up to 19 colors in various color variations. After he ended his concrete phase in painting in 1975, he developed a completely new technique to reproduce his veil pictures in screen printing. He used iris printing, in which different colors are printed at the same time. Mixed with transparency paste, glazes are created that are printed several times on top of one another. You don't get an edition with absolutely identical sheets, but each print is different, you get a series of single sheets, which can have completely different colors due to frequent washing of the screen. From 1963 to 1968 around 235 editions were made, mostly series, less single sheets, printed on cardboard and sometimes on canvas.
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50s
