Christian Otte

"For a long time, my painting has expressed my warped relationship with the human being, this creature that is as hateful as it is admirable, both repulsive and attractive, frightful and adorable, in its behaviours and aspirations. […] I became tired of man and depicting him, when I discovered a fondness for the cow. Have I foreseen a metaphor for a large fringe of humanity? The cow gives everything and takes everything; it is peaceful in death – its eyes reveal an infinite sadness, a deep nostalgia for a lost paradise, that distant time, when, like a gazelle, it roamed the grasslands to the distant horizons, before the time of men." Christian Otte (1943–2005)