Gouache, abstract composition, signed lower left, signs of age (including creases in the margins), sheet approx. 42 x 59 cm, 1931 theater painter in Mühlhausen, 1932-34 sculptural training with Walter Krause, 1934-40 studies at the HfBK in Weimar with Alfred Hierl, from 1951 studio in the Steubenstraße in Weimar, 1951-52 lecturer at the Hochschule für Architektur Weimar, 1952-72 freelance in Weimar, Ortelt is assigned to the lost generation
