407 - Diet Sayler, Hatching, 2 signed lithographs from 1973, each gallery-framed

Diet Sayler, Hatching, 2 signed lithographs from 1973, each gallery-framed Diet Sayler, *1939 Timisoara, Romania, German painter and sculptor, here: Concrete Art, the illusion of a geometric form in motion created by vertical lines, lithograph, approx. 20 x 20 cm, monogrammed, dated (19)73, numbered 50/50, gallery-framed under glass About the artist: 1956-61: studied architectural engineering at the Technical University in Timișoara and painting in Iuliu Podlipny’s class; in the 1960s, he developed an abstract style of painting which was denounced as ‘Western decadence’ and excluded from all exhibitions - it was not until 1968, at the time of the Prague Spring, that he achieved his breakthrough; in 1973, he moved to Nuremberg; his first exhibition was held at the Grand Palais in Paris; this was followed by exhibitions in Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan and the USA, inter alia; in 1990, following the fall of the Iron Curtain, retrospectives of Diet Sayler’s work were also shown in Eastern Europe, in Prague, at the Vasarely Museum in Budapest and at the National Museum in Bucharest; From 1992 to 2005, he held a professorship at the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts; his works are held inter alia at MoMA in New York, the Albertina in Vienna and the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro.