Fritz Köthe was born in 1916 in Berlin and passed away in 2005 in Berlin. Fritz Köthe was a German painter and graphic artist and is considered one of the most important German representatives of Pop Art and Photorealism. From 1931 to 1935 he completed an apprenticeship as a painter. Beginning in 1936 he studied at the State Academy for Graphic Arts in Leipzig, having previously attended the Graphic Arts School in Berlin.

From 1938 Fritz Köthe was again in Berlin, and from 1951 he worked primarily as a graphic artist for publishers and advertising agencies. He subsequently resumed his own artistic work as a freelance painter. In 1963 he created street and traffic sign paintings, and a year later he produced his first posters....