[Original Drawing]. Autobiographie von Otmar Bauer. (Photostat transcript of an unpublished typewritten manuscript).

(Dieter ROTH).

Publication Date: 1973

About this Item

A 95-page loose sheet photostat of Otmar Bauer's proposed autobiography which was to be entitiled "F r den Augenblick, den ersten Teil" (For the moment, the First part). Otmar Bauer (1945-2004) was a major figure in Viennese Aktionism, a colleague and compatriot of Otto Muehl, and an establishing member of the idyllic 'AAO' or Actions-Analytical Organisation. Until this day his autobiography remains unpublished. This copy of the typescript is presented loose in a green card file folder. On the cover of the folder is a frenzied original drawing by Dieter Roth, executed using different coloured pens (31.5 x 24 cm). The drawing extends over a single side of the folder, across the opening flap. The heavy repetitive nature of much of Roth's penwork leads on occasion to fantastically expressive scratches on the surface of the card. The drawing is signed in green pen by Roth in the lower right of the composition, and he has written a dedication along the left-hand edge, "f r Mechthild 25.11.73 Berlin". Mechthild Rausch was a fellow artist, then partner of Gerhard R hm, and the hidden contributor to the fourth issue of Schastrommel no.4 (in the magazine she wrote under the alias of Graf von Zinzendorf). The drawing is also signed by the artist Oswald Wiener, "f r Mechthild, Oswald". Roth, Wiener, and R hm were to collaborate throughout most of late 1972 and 1973 on Gunter Brus's exile Viennese Aktionist magazine, Die Schastrommel, meeting regularly at Wiener's bar 'Exil' and in R hm's Berlin apartment.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [Original Drawing]. Autobiographie von Otmar Bauer. (Photostat transcript of an unpublished typewritten manuscript).
• Publication Date: 1973
• Binding: Soft cover
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)