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Paul Kother 1878 Leipzig - 1963 Weimar - "Judith" - Etching/paper. 31 x 25 cm, 34.5 x 28 cm (passe-partout opening), 76 x 54.5 cm (dimensions with frame). Signed lower right: Paul Kother. Inscribed lower left: Orig. drypoint 1st state 1st proof. Passe-partout. Framed under glass. Minimally foxed. - Lit.: Hartmann, Ralf F. (Ed.). Paul Kother. 1878 - 1963. Melancholic Expressionism. Verden 2018. Paul Kother was at the Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig since 1894. Two years later, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and was a student of Carl Bantzer. Together with the Brücke artist Otto Mueller, he shared a studio apartment in Munich (1898-99). A close friendship connected the two men, as Kother married Mueller's sister. Through Otto Mueller, he got to know other artists of the "Brücke" and their circle and exhibited with them. Kother lived in Berlin from 1914 and was represented at exhibitions of the "Sturm" gallery and the "Novembergruppe". Works were also exhibited in 1915 at the Emil Richter Gallery.