Gottfried Salzmann, Rare Large Collage New York Cityscape Skyline Assemblage Painting, 1972

Description

Gottfried Salzmann worked on a series of photo collages inspired by the city streets and the urban. In this collage … more Gottfried Salzmann worked on a series of photo collages inspired by the city streets and the urban. In this collage the artist cuts and crops pieces of newspaper, and attaches them to his paper matrix and then proceeds to paint around and on top of the image in black and white. The artist restrains the use of colors to black and white, creating geometric patterns through the assemblage of the cutout paper to resemble skyscrapers in the New York skyline.

Gottfried Salzmann , born on 26 March 1943 In Saalfelden near Salzburg in Austria is an Austrian painter. He lives and works in France (between Paris and Vence) since 1965.

He studied from 1963 to 1965 at the school of fine arts of Vienne and then, from 1965 to 1968, at the Beaux-Arts of Paris. He exhibited for the first time in 1969 in Salzburg.
He paints in watercolor, is also a draftsman, an engraver and a photographer; He sometimes painted on his pictures when he left the watercolor.

In 1989, he illustrated by lithographs Situations de New York by Jean-Paul Sartre (edition Les Bibliophiles de France ).

Prizes:
1972: David-Weill Drawing Prize, Paris - Theodor Körner Prize, Vienna
1975: Grand Prize of drawing of the "Salzburger Wirschatskammer"
1977: 1st international prize for watercolor in Rome.

Exhibitions:
Personal exhibitions
Germany: Krefeld (Galerie Peerlings), Düsseldorf (Galerie Walther), Cologne (Galerie Boisserée), Munich (Galerie Gunzenhauser, Galerie Seifert-Binder), Hamburg (Lochte Gallery), Darmstadt Gallery Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Mainz, Schweinfurt, Nüremberg (photographs), Aachen
England: London (Albermale Gallery)
Steyr, Innsbruck (Bloch Gallery, Maier Gallery), Lusteneau (Galerie Neufeld), Klagenfurt (Austria), Vienna (Galerie Würthle, Galerie Stubenbastei, Gallery Contact), Salzburg (Gallery Welz), Linz (Oberösterreichisches Kunstverein, (Künsterhaus, Slama Gallery), Graz, Bozen
Belgium: Brussels
United States: New York (Austrian Institute, KPF Gallery, Franklin Bowles Gallery), Washington DC (Bader Gallery)
France: Paris (Galerie Flak, Gallery of the Atelier Lambert, Galerie l'Œil Sévigné, City Hall, Galerie Nichido, Galerie Étienne de Causans, Galerie Arcturus, Rouen (Center of Contemporary Art), Aachen, Amiens (House of Culture), Deauville, Tours
Hungary: Budapest
Japan: Tokyo (Nichido Gallery), Fukuoka (Nichido Gallery)
Liechtenstein: Vaduz (Haas Gallery)
Philippines: Manila
Poland: Warsaw
Switzerland: Bern (Galerie Vita), Basel, Lausanne, Friborg (Galerie Ollier)
Latest exhibitions [ edit Change the code ]
2009:
Gallery New Art City, Lille
Engravings, photo-forts, watercolors, Métairie Bruyère, Parly (89240)
In museums:
1973: House of the culture of Amiens
1982: Museum of the Albertina of Vienna
1987: Staatliche Sammlungen Schweinfurt
1991: Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum Linz; Metropolitan Museum of Manila; Museum of Modern Art of the Rupertinium of Salzburg
1993: Museum of the Seita, Paris
1996: Center of contemporary art of Rouen (with Nicole Bottet)
1998: Benedictine Palace , Fécamp
2001: Museum of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, The Varenne
2003: Carolino Augusteum Museum of Salzburg
2006: Inauguration of the Gottfried Salzmann Hall at the Carolino Augusteum Museum in Salzburg less