Armin Sandy

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Armin Sandig (born March 10, 1929 in Hof / Saale ( Bavaria ), † August 7, 2015 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Live and act

In the Hofer art exhibition "Young Painters", in which his painter friend Paul (actually Werner) Krüger took part, Sandig was able to show his own work for the first time in 1946/1947 at the age of 17. When he moved from the south to the north, Hamburg became his adopted home in 1951, where he lived until his death in August 2015. The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg sponsored him. In 1960 he was awarded the Lichtwark scholarship and in 1972 he was awarded the Edwin Scharff Prize . He was awarded the prize of the Nuremberg International Drawing Competition in 1980 and the Friedrich Baur Prize for Fine Arts of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1992 .

Armin Sandig (2nd from left) at the opening of a photo exhibition in the Hamburg State Opera

After becoming a full member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg in 1972 , he was its president from 1980 to 2011. In 1989 the Hamburg Senate appointed him honorary professor in recognition of his work. In 2002 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

As an autodidact, he was initially influenced by Max Beckmann , Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee , but increasingly found his own way. In his early work, the search for “totally autonomous painting” (Armin Sandig) led him to constructivist abstraction and his work could be assigned to tachism , an informal direction within abstract art, at this time . From 1970 onwards, his work was increasingly shaped by a figurative objectivity, albeit in a visual language of his own. Work phases separated, but fundamental changes did not take place afterwards. Armin Sandig was one of the most important representatives of 20th century German art. His works are represented in many public collections, such as the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Kunsthalle Bremen , the Art Museum Städel in Frankfurt am Main, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne , the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart .

Solo exhibitions

Own publications

  • 1959: portfolio with four etchings; Schmücking, Braunschweig
  • 1960: Pulling storks, portfolio with eight color lithographs for a poem by JG Böhler, Paris
  • 1961: Declination of Aquatinte, cassette with ten color etchings; Brusberg , Hanover
  • 1962: novel. Picture book in 21 lithographs. Text by Helmut Heissenbüttel. Preface Will Grohmann. Brusberg , Hanover, 35 copies
  • 1963: Lands and seascapes; Yearling, Hanover
  • 1969: 11 × 6, portfolio with eleven black and white etchings; Self-published, Hamburg
  • 1975: Three attempts with goddesses, suite of three color etchings for your own text; Steintor-Verlag, Hamburg
  • 1985: Von Liebeskunst, 26 offset lithographs on a text by Heißenbüttel; Maximiliangesellschaft, Hamburg
  • 1994: On the Abyss of Events - An attempt to approach Hans Henny Jahnn; Box with five black and white etchings and an essay by Armin Sandig, Hamburg

literature

  • Hanjo Kesting: Armin Sandig in honor: Festschrift in the thirtieth year of his presidency of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-50170-4 .

Web links

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  • Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg, press release
  • Culture Atlas Upper Franconia, additional information on Arnim Sandig
  • Galerie Herold, biography Armin Sandig

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Painter and graphic artist: Armin Sandig died at the age of 86 . Spiegel Online , August 11, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Sandy, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof / Saale
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 2015
Place of death Hamburg