the LOTZ/GRIFFITHS collection

Frances Aviva Blane

Frances Aviva Blane Frances Aviva Blane Virus Dimensions Unknown
Untitled, Oil on canvas 91x91cm 1995 Virus Dimensions Unknown, Oil on canvas 91x91cm 2020
Frances Aviva Blane Frances Aviva Blane
Untitled, Acrylic on linen 17x12cm Untitled, Charcoal & ? on paper 38x28cm
Frances Aviva Blane Frances Aviva Blane
Untitled (2), Oil on canvas 51x40cm 1993 Shillam Charcoal on paper 30x18cm
Frances Aviva Blane  
Untitled (3) Drawing Charcoal on paper 35x25cm  

Articles/reviews by Corinna

More discord 25 November 2022

The stuff of dreams and nightmares 27 September 2022

The Force dyad in St James: 12 November 2020

Virus – dimensions unknown: 2 July 2020 (Artists in Quarantine No. 2)

Who am I? New work by Frances Aviva Blane: 6 September 2019

Frances Aviva Blane: The Human Touch: 31 October 2018

In the beginning was the mark: 28 April 2018

Talk at the finissage of Human, exhibition at the German Embassy 19 January 2018 - Drawn to Abstraction

German expressionism’s night at the embassy: 3 May 2017

It isn’t masks now, it’s faces flyer for Two Faces, paintings and drawings by Frances Aviva Blane at the German Ambassador’s Residence, 34 Belgrave Square SW1, 27 July 2016 to 31 January 2017

Two Faces, Paintings and Drawings, Frances Aviva Blane, German Ambassador's Residence, London: 6 August 2016

All or nothing: 18 December 2015

Before, yesterday and now: 3 September 2014

Back to black: 10 March 2014

Face to face: March 2013

Heart of darkness: 10 September 2011

Frances Aviva Blane: late 1990s

Exciting mix of new art: Southern Cross 20 April 1994

Frances Aviva Blane website Frances Aviva Blane on Wikipedia

Robin Richmond

Robin Richmond    
The sky for a roof, the earth for a bed, Oil on canvas
152x101cm 2007
   

Robin & Corinna both attended St George’s English School in Rome in the 1960s.

Reviews by Corinna

Spaces of memory and solace: 1 March 2016

Stones of the sky: 5 March 2010

Galleries reviews 2008, 2012, 2014

Galleries: February 2008

Robin Richmond website

Peter Clossick

Peter Clossick Sandrine Pensive Peter Clossick Statue and Skull Peter Clossick Statue and Plant Peter Clossick Sophie Sleeping
Sandrine, Pensive Oil on board 16.5x22cm Statue and skull Oil/Pastel on board 29x38cm Statue and plant Oil on board 28x38cm Sophie Sleeping Oil on board 77x82cm
Julie Held Peter Clossick      
Corinna wrote the catalogue essay      

Reviews by Corinna

Mind games under lockdown: 16 July 2020 (Artists in Quarantine No. 3)

Semblance and reflection: 25 June 2019

Making a mark in Deal: 8 December 2017

Peter Clossick website Peter Clossick

Paul Tonkin

Paul Tonkin    
     

Reviews by Corinna

Artists who defied the market – and the Tate: 27 August 2015

Go with the flow: 29 May 2011

The Jimi Hendrix of colour abstraction: 2 December 2010

Paul Tonkin Paul Tonkin

John Carter RA

John Carter Right Angle 1 John Carter  
Right Angle 1 Acrylic with marble powder on plywood 42x42x4 1998 Book: John Carter by Chris Yetton & Mel Gooding
See page 100 for Right Angle 1
 

Robbie bought Right Angle 1 in 1999 at the Gudrun Spielvogel Galerie in Munich [search under Künstler for 'Carter'] having been given the invite to the PV by Jules de Goede.

John Carter

Jules de Goede

Jules de Goede Jules de Goede  
Untitled (2) Acrylic on canvas 79x70cm Untitled (1) Acrylic on canvas 53x37cm  
Jules de Goede Jules de Goede  
Jules de Goede. Texts by Mel Gooding & Corinna Lotz (Exploring the void) 2006 Catalogue which Corinna's article (Jules de Goede's visual subversion: 1992/3) was written for  

Tribute by Corinna

Jules de Goede – making the impossible seem possible: September 2007

Jules de Goede Jules de Goede Jules de Goede

Denis Bowen

Denis Bowen Denis Bowen  
Millenium (for Corinna) Oil on board 38x29cm 2000 Vertical image Paper 1998  

Reviews by Corinna

The other story of British abstract art: May 2001

British artist scours Oz for art critics: Southern Cross 8 December 1993

Pioneers of abstraction 1956-1966: News Line 11 March 1986

Denis Bowen Denis Bowen Denis Bowen

Richard Walker

Richard Walker Richard Walker
Curfew in East Village Artist's Proof 1979 Value of knowledge Mixed media on canvas 40x40cm 2019
Richard Walker Richard Walker
   
Richard Walker
The tape is now the music Mixed media on canvas 100x30cm 2008 ("The tape is now the music" is one of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies)
Richard Walker Richard Walker
Book: The Bigger Picture with text by Corinna Corinna wrote the catalogue essay

Reviews by Corinna

The chess piece logic of Cuckooland: 26 August 2020 (Artists in Quarantine No. 5)

Welcome to WalkerWorld!: 15 October 2015

Richard Walker: The Bigger Picture: 17 October 2011

An Alice for our time: 20 April 2009

Galleries: January 2009

Galleries: October 2006

Richard Walker

William McKeown

William McKeown William McKeown william mckeown
Untitled Oil on linen 43x43cm 2008 Untitled Oil on linen 43x43cm 2008 Book: William McKeown Irish Museum of Modern Art ed Enrique Juncosa with article by Corinna Accepting the blur

Tributes by Corinna

All that is, is light: 21 June 2012

A poem for Willie McKeown

William McKeown William McKeown

Sarah Medway

Sarah Medway Sarah Medway Sarah Medway
Blizzard Oil (check) on canvas 60x60cm 1997 Acrylic on tile? 15x15cm 1997 Print 4 of 19 25x27cm February 2001/2007?
Sarah Medway    
Corinna wrote the catalogue essay:
In the realm of the senses: November 2001
   

Reviews by Corinna

Galleries October 2001

Abandoned on the mountains of the heart: October 1996

Sarah Medway Sarah Medway Sarah Medway

Michael Bowdidge

Michael Bowdidge Michael Bowdidge  
Untitled digital print 1 of 100 37x24cm 2001 Untitled digital print 1 of 100 37x24cm 2001  

Michael Bowdidge was a student of Jules de Goede.

Review by Corinna

Techno-gothic fusion

Michael Bowdidge Michael Bowdidge

Andy Cole

Andy Cole Darkest before dawn Andy Cole  
Darkest before dawn Oil on glass 36x36cm 1990/91 Several World VI Crayon/Charcoal on paper 27x27cm 1990  

Andy Cole was a student of Jules de Goede.

Simon Faithfull

Simon Faithfull Simon Faithfull  
Cortina Head Metal, glass, wiring from burnt out Ford Cortina Bow Flyover  

Review by Corinna

Scrappy Art: Southern Cross 10 March 1993

Simon Faithful Simon Faithful

Michele Griffiths

Michele Griffiths Michele Griffiths  
The Ancient of Days Oil on gesso-ed wood 30x30cm 1996 Bloomin Marvellous Mixed media 17x12cm 2016  

Michele Griffiths is Robbie's sister-in-law.

Review by Corinna

The Stour Gallery Exhibition Spring 2016 for Galleries

Michele Griffiths

Alex Calinescu

Alex Calinescu    
Untitled Oil on canvas 20x20cm    

Review by Corinna

Galleries September 2003

Alex Calinescu

Biddy Bunzl

Biddy Bunzl Biddy Bunzl Biddy Bunzl
     

Review by Corinna

Galleries April 2003

Biddy Bunzl Biddy Bunzl

Chebakova

Chebokova  
Being exposed  

Julie Held

Julie Held Julie Held Julie Held Peter Clossick
     

Review by Corinna

Aching: 14 October 2020 (Artists in Quarantine No. 7)

Galleries September 2002

Julie Held Julie Held

Cuillin Bantock

Cuillin Bantock  
Near Harlech beach Conte crayon on paper 25.5x39.5cm 2006  

Cuillin Bantock

Gerhard Klampäckel

Gerhard Klampäckel  
Ubi bene, ibi patria (Where it is well with me, there is my country) Print 9 of 37 74x53cm 1987  

Gerhard Klampäckel Gerhard Klampäckel

John Taylor

John Taylor  

Interior with jet trail Acrylic on board 33x28cm

 

We bought this from the Anna Lovely Gallery.

John Taylor

Michele del Campo

Michele del Campo Michele del Campo
Untitled (Kings Road) Oil on canvas 70x60cm Corinna 'fine-tuned' the catalogue essay

Review by Corinna

A silver lining for a scary time: 23 June 2020 (Artists in Quarantine No. 1)

Galleries 10 July 2009

Michele del Campo

Rachel Clark

Rachel Clark  

Ridle of Timnath Etching 6 of 25 42x36cm

 

Review by Corinna

Sensuous territories of the mind: Glass 12 December 2013

Rachel Clark

Jane Ponsford

Jane Ponsford  
Seap Cotton pulp paper Indian ink 15x10cm 2015  

Jane Ponsford

Hughie O'Donoghue RA

Hughie O'Donaghue  
Recoil Etching 3 of 25 aquatint 49x38cm 1989  

Review by Corinna

Hughie O'Donaghue's personal archeology: News Line 23 May 1986

Hughie O'Donoghue Hughie O'Donoghue Hughie O'Donoghue

Donnagh McKenna

Donnagh McKenna Donnagh McKenna Donnagh McKenna
Acrylic on paper 17x21.5cm Probably watercolour on paper 26x20cm Acrylic on paper 21x28cm
Donagh McKenna Donnagh McKenna Donnagh McKenna
Moore Acrylic on paper 75x122cm Dublin 1985 Acrylic on paper 48x38cm DMK 1984 Crayon on paper 30x24cm 1986
    Atrochenko-Mckenna book
    Corinna wrote the catalogue essay for this group show of Atroshenko, Martyn Brewster, Sheila Girling & Donnagh McKenna

Donnagh McKenna

Liu Haiming

Lui Haiming Lui Haiming Lui Haiming
     
Lui Haiming Lui Haiming Lui Haiming
     
Liu Haiming Liu Haiming  
Portrait of Corinna 32x41cm 1989 Print 6 of 50 14x18cm  

Reviews by Corinna

Liu Haiming at John Martin: December 1996

Works of power and skill: News Line 4 September 1986

Lui Haiming Lui Haiming

Atroshenko

Atroshenko Atrochenko-Mckenna book
50x32cm Corinna wrote the catalogue essay for this group show of Atroshenko, Martyn Brewster, Sheila Girling & Donnagh McKenna

 

Stephen Cohen

Stephen Cohen  
Across the Green 2001 Print 6 of 12 46x38cm
Present from Suzie, his daughter.
 

Translator of Rilke.

Aristomenis Tsolakis

Aristomenis Tsolakis Aristomenis Tsolakis Tsolakis
Poster for the Aristomenis Tsolakis show at the Party Bookshop in Athens 35x52cm 1986 Drawing 17x24cm 1985 Andromeda Print? 34x24cm 1985

Reviews by Corinna

Aristomenis Tsolakis at the Warwich Arts Fair 1986

The artist as an experimenter News Line

Trash Treasure

Trash Treasure Trash Treasure
Some interesting artifacts in a box No.31

Review by Corinna

Trash artists connect to 'Othernet': Times Higher 14 April 1995

Ian Rawlinson

Ian Rawlinson    
Connection Print AP 19x28cm1993    

 

Enzo Castagno

Enzo Castagno  
50x38cm 2005  

Review by Corinna

Enzo Castagno: Gallery Guide Europe Summer 2006

Wolfgang Lotz & Hilde Lotz-Bauer family connections

 

Alton Pickens

Alton Pickens Alton Pickens
Musician (picure of Joe McPhee) Oil on Canvas 65x104cm 1975 Joker Oil on canvas
Alton Pickens Alton Pickens
Man Statue Cement fondue 40x120x18cm 1970s

Saturn and Family Print 1953 (MOMA has a copy) 9 of

Robbie assumes that this depicts US president Dwight D. Eisenhower & his wife Mamie perhaps related to the Korean war.

Alton Pickens was a friend of the Lotz family and lived with them for a short time in Poughkeepsie NY. They met in the 1950's at Vassar College, where Hilde, Wolfgang and Alton were teaching.

Joe McPhee is an outstanding avant-guarde saxophonist, also living in Poughkeepsie. See the recent article about him in Wired magazine. You can hear his music on YouTube for example Joe McPhee Po Music ~ Violets for Pia. This is Lower East Side Shout (for Alton Pickens). He was a good friend of Alton Pickens and also the Lotz family (now including the Griffiths branch!).

Article about Joe McPhee by Corinna

Exciting times. Dangerous times. 2 November 2020 (Artists in Quarantine No. 8)

Alton Pickens

Rosalba Carriera (1673 - 1757)

Rosalba Carriera    
Portrait of a lady Pastel    

Wikipedia Eduard Bargheer

Eduard Bargheer

Eduard Bargheer Eduard Bargheer
Ischia Watercolour on paper 60x45cm 1942 Head Watercolour on paper 21.5x27cm 1954
Eduard Bargheer Eduard Bargheer
Peasants Watercolour on paper 60x48cm inscribed
"Für Lotzen von Bargheer 1942"
On the reverse side of previous: Olive trees Watercolour 60x48cm
Eduard Bargheer Bargheer Balcony

Pencil on tracing paper; A study for the watercolour above
"Für Lotzen von Bargheer ? 1941"

Balcony: Irene has this watercolour in Sweden
Eduard Bargheer Eduard Bargheer
Bargheer prints 1935 Print 38.5x27.5cm 1935
Eduard Bargheer Eduard Bargheer
Print 38.5x27.5cm 1935 Print 38.5x27.5cm 1935
Eduard Bargheer Eduard Bargheer
Print 27.5x38.5cm 1935 Print 38.5x27.5cm 1935

From the English edition of Wikipedia:

"In 1929 Bargheer became a member of the Hamburg Secession, a group of artists and intellectuals that developed out of Expressionism and included the art historians Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky. In 1933, the Hamburg Secession disbanded of its own accord, for it did not wish to exclude its Jewish members, as the Nazi party required."

From the German edition of Wikipedia:

"1932/1933 Bargheer used a scholarship from the city of Hamburg for a stay of several months in Paris, during which he befriended the Panofsky student Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich."

"The director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Friedrich Kriegbaum commissioned him to create reconstruction drawings of the Medici tombs by Michelangelo . In the years 1942 to 1944 he was an interpreter at a German-Italian naval shipyard in La Spezia."

Wolfgang Lotz was also a student of Panofsky. Wolfgang was also an interpreter at La Spezia.

Kriegbaum also commissioned Hilde Lotz-Bauer to document Florentine urbanism.

Wolfgang was the head of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, until his doctoral supervisor Heydenreich took over the overall management.

Heydenreich with Wolfgang co-wrote the Pelican History of Art's Architecture in Italy, 1400 to 1600.

Museum Eduard Bargheer Wikipedia Eduard Bargheer Eduard Bargheer

Werner Gilles

Werner Gilles
Werner Gilles by Helga Fietz
Watercolour 62x44cm 1936
Portrait of Werner Gilles by Helga Fietz

Designated as a 'degenerate' by the Nazi regime and had work on show in the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) Exhibition in the Haus de Kunst Munich in 1937.

Werner Gilles Werner Gilles Werner Gilles

Emilio Greco

Emilio Greco    
Sitting nude possibly SIlver point on paper artist proof "Rome 1964 to Wolfgang Lotz" 24x29cm    

Emilio Greco Emilio Greco Emilio Greco

Hermann Blumenthal

Herman Blumenthal    

Etching 20x19cm

   

Designated as a 'degenerate' by the Nazi regime.

Hermann Blumenthal Hermann Blumenthal

Franz Marc

Herman Blumenthal    
Genesis II (Schopfungsgeschichte II), Woodcut in yellow, black, and green 1914 20x23.5cm    

Designated as a 'degenerate' by the Nazi regime and had work on show in the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) Exhibition in the Haus de Kunst Munich in 1937.

Hermann Blumenthal

Paul Sollmann (1886 - 1950)

Paul Sollmann Paul Sollmann Paul Sollmann
Rothenburg ob der Tauber Kobolzeller Tor Etching 25x32cm Rothenburg ob der Tauber Markusturm u. Röderbogen Etching No. 4 25x29cm 1911 Frühling in Andalusien Photo? 23x27cm

Paul Sollmann was Corinna's great-uncle (Hilde's mother's brother).

Gerhard Fietz

Gerhard Fietz  
Print (woodcut?) 18x13.5cm 1950  

Gerhard Fietz was the second husband of Helga Fietz who photographed with Hilde in L'Aquila in the 1930s.

Gerhard Fietz

Pavel Kontny

Pavel Kontny  
Crouching nude 30x37cm Mixed media on paper  

 

Frans van Mieris the Younger (1689 - 1763)

Franz Mieris-the Younger  
Oil on bone  

Frans van Mieris the Younger

Ignaz Schmidt (1804 - 1880)

In Rome 1827/29. His painting, Italian woman praying, is in the Mainz museum.

Ignaz Schmidt  
Oil on canvas. 23x15cm
Purchased from Fausto Riganti, Via Della Croce, Rome
 

 

Rome artefacts

Spanish Steps Rome Map
Engraving

Map of Ancient Rome Engraving by Christoph Weigel

Johann Christoph Weigel, known as Christoph Weigel the Elder (9 November 1654 – 5 February 1725), was a German engraver, art dealer and publisher. He was born at Redwitz, Free imperial city of Eger in Egerland, and died in Nuremberg, aged 70.

 

Paintings in Hospitals 45th Anniversary Print Portfolio by Royal Academicians

All the prints below are in a box set printed on 57x77 card.

Craigie Aitchison RA

Craigie Aitchison    
Cypress Tree Montecastelli Screenprint 12x15cm 68/75 signed in pencil verso 2004    

Norman Ackroyd RA

Norman Ackroyd    
Lakeside Winter Aquatint 22x26cm 28/200 signed in pencil 2004    

Peter Blake RA

Peter Blake    
The Tuileries Screenprint 34x45cm 4/200 signed in pencil 2004    

Eileen Cooper RA

Eileen Cooper    
Private View Etching 12.5x20cm 28/100 signed in pencil 2004    

John Hoyland RA

John Hoyland    
The Gnome Screenprint 45x53cm 4/200 signed in pencil 2005    

Albert Irvin RA

Albert Irvin    
The Angel Screenprint 39x33cm 68/125 signed in pencil 2003    

Chris Orr RA

Chris Orr    
Toys Lithograph 77x57cm 68/100 signed in pencil 2004    

Tom Phillips RA

Tom Phillips    
The Ballet of Unhatched Chickens Screenprint 31x26cm 4/200 signed in pencil 2004