Diet Sayler

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Diet Sayler

Diet Sayler (* 1939 in Timișoara , Romania ) is a German painter and sculptor .

School, training, early work

AK59 1969, oil on paper, Museum of Modern Art

Diet Sayler studied structural engineering at the Technical University in Timișoara (1956–1961) and painting in the class of Iuliu Podlipny . In the early 1960s he developed an abstract painting that was defamed as Western decadent and excluded from all exhibitions. The breakthrough came in 1968 during the Prague Spring .

The exhibition “5 young artists” in the Galeria Kalinderu in Bucharest showed abstract-constructive art in Romania for the first time. Sayler moved to Bucharest and from then on was able to exhibit abroad, but was not allowed to travel with him. In 1971 the political climate changed. The spring of reforms in Bucharest was over and Sayler's work could no longer be shown in the following period. Sayler gave a few interviews in the foreign press and then definitely got into isolation.

Emigration and international exhibition activity

Floor sculpture 1982, plexiglass and steel, 96.4 × 48.2 × 10.2 cm

When Sayler emigrated to Germany in 1973, he moved his work and life to Nuremberg , where, in addition to his artistic work, from 1976 he also worked as a lecturer. In 1975 he showed his work for the first time in the Grand Palais in Paris. This was followed by solo exhibitions in the Hermanns Gallery in Munich, later in the Galleria Lorenzelli in Milan and in the Galeria Edurne in Madrid. He has now presented his work in many Western European countries and in Brazil, Japan and the USA. In 1990, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Diet Sayler's retrospectives were shown in Eastern Europe, in the Czech Museum in Prague, in the Vasarely Museum in Budapest and in the National Museum in Bucharest.

The exhibition series “concrete” in Nuremberg (1980 to 1990), for which he was responsible, received international attention. Around a hundred different artists took part, including Dan Flavin , Ellsworth Kelly , Kenneth Martin , Vera Molnár , François Morellet , Aurélie Nemours , Mario Nigro , Leon Polk Smith and Jesús Rafael Soto . In 1988 Sayler curated the Franco-German exhibition "Construction and Concept" in Berlin. In the same year he received the Camille Graeser Prize in Zurich . In addition to the exhibitions with painting, graphics, sculpture and photography, a number of site-specific installations took place: Galerie Grare Paris, Palazzo Ducale Genua, East West Galerie New York, St. Peter Cambridge, Gallery A London, Elly Cathedral, University Gallery Pilsen, MUWA Graz, Museo CAMEC La Spezia.

For 2018 Sayler was awarded the City of Nuremberg's Great Culture Prize .

Teaching

Throwing piece 1995, Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie , Regensburg

From 1992 to 2005 Diet Sayler was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . In 1995 he was a lecturer at the Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo as a guest lecturer . After retiring in 2006, he took over the management of the XIII. Summer academy in Plauen .

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Malatesta 2002, diptych, Neue Galerie Kassel

The young Diet Sayler was enthusiastic about Brancusi and Malewitsch . At the beginning of his career he was mainly inspired by Suprematism and Russian revolutionary art. He studied the theories and works of the De Stijl and Bauhaus artists . He later borrowed from Dadaism the principle of chance that founded his work.

For Concrete Art was Sayler of opposition to the political reality and the doctrine of Socialist Realism. The drive to change is a leitmotif of his work. Sayler's early works are very colorful. In the years of refusal and opposition, the color disappears and Sayler's works are dressed in sober black and white. After the culture shock of emigration, only thin lines can be found on white canvases. Towards the end of the eighties Sayler developed a system of basic elements that became the repertoire of his painting. The color returns. The painting pieces, bivalences and throwing pieces are created (with the random principle). In the late 1990s, the wall pieces (bodies) and the engrams (norigrams) were created as site-specific installations in city architecture. At the same time, the joints develop in the rooms of museums, churches or galleries.

On November 19, 2018, Sayler received the City of Nuremberg's Great Culture Prize. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Museums

Exhibitions - selection from 2000

One Man Show, fortunaarte, Messina, 2008
One Man Show, Bayreuth Art Museum, 2009
Teodosio 2002, acrylic on canvas, private collection Nuremberg
Gargano 2005, acrylic on canvas, 147 × 287 cm
  • 2013
    • Diet Sayler: The Reality of Poetry . New Museum Nuremberg
    • New gallery - seen again . New gallery, Kassel
    • Structure & energy. The need for abstraction . 418 Gallery, Bucharest
  • 2012
    • Chance as Strategy . Vasarely Muzeum, Budapest
    • Ornamental structures . Art Association Pforzheim
    • Artists from Romania abroad . Gallery Emilia Suciu, Ettlingen
  • 2011
    • Nice prospects. Reopening of the Neue Galerie . New gallery, Kassel.
    • Ornament - seriality . Vasarely Museum Budapest.
    • De lineas, formas, medidas, color y materia . Galeria Edurne, Madrid.
    • Diet Sayler: Norigrams . Muzeul de Arta, Timisoara.
    • Ornamental Structures . Saarbrücken City Gallery.
  • 2010
    • Diet Sayler: Fuga ligure . Museo CAMeC, La Spezia.
    • Diet Sayler: Fugue . Museum of Perception, Graz.
    • Color & Geometry. Actualité de l´art construit européen . Musées de Sens.
    • The New Gallery - Appearance in the New Gallery Palace , Kassel.
    • Twentysix Gasoline Stations Ed Altri Libri DArtista . Museo Regionale di Messina.
  • 2009
    • Diet Sayler: Painting doesn't lie . Bayreuth Art Museum.
    • L'oblique . Musee du Chateau de Montbeliard.
    • Diet Sayler: La Pittura non mente . Fortuna Arte, Messina.
    • Reflections upon drawing . BWA Lublin.
    • Spazio Libro d'Artista . Palazzo Manganelli, Catania.
    • See very close and very far . City Gallery Erlangen.
  • 2008
    • Diet Sayler . Galerie Ursula Huber, Basel.
    • Diet Sayler . Galerie der Moderne, Munich.
    • Diet Sayler . Retrospective Städtische Galerie Erlangen.
    • Arhiva Demarco . Brukenthal National Museum Sibiu.
    • Dialog between the generations . Concrete Art Forum, Erfurt.
    • Intelligible Non-Violent . Art Atlas Sztuki, Lodz.
  • 2007
    • Still & consistent . The Uwe Obier Collection, Kunstverein Siegen.
  • 2006
    • Movement in the square . Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch.
    • Kolekcja W centrum wydarzen . Zachęta, Lublin.
    • Diet Sayler . University Gallery Pilsen.
    • Diet Sayler and Tatsushi Kawanabe . art gallery fürth , Fürth.
    • Diet Sayler . BWA Lublin.
    • Motiva . Austria Center Vienna, Vienna.
    • Square . Opening exhibition Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch.
    • Identidades . Galeria Edurne, Madrid.
  • 2005
    • Always specific. The Hubertus Schoeller Foundation . Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren.
    • Diet Sayler . Uwe Sacksofsky Gallery, Heidelberg.
    • La boite en valise or The New World is in the middle of Europe . Academy of Fine Arts, Prague.
    • Yellow and gold . Linde Hollinger Gallery, Ladenburg.
    • experiment specifically . Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt.
  • 2004
    • Europe in concrete terms . Altana Gallery, Dresden.
  • 2003
    • Art shows what you can't see . City Gallery Erlangen.
    • Diet Sayler . Linde Hollinger Gallery, Ladenburg.
    • Diet Sayler . Gallery Kunst im Gang, Bamberg.
    • Concrete art - unity and diversity . Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, hall.
  • 2002
    • Segni e contesti . Studio B2, Genoa.
    • Diet Sayler ., Nottingham Trent University.
  • 2001
    • Diet Sayler: Geometria e tempo . Palazzo Ducale, Genoa.
    • Art for Kaliningrad-Koenigsberg . Kaliningrad State Art Gallery.
  • 2000
    • Diet Sayler . Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague.
    • Diet Sayler . Retrospective Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.

literature

  • Anca Arghir, Eugen Gomringer: Diet Sayler. Change. Galerie Herrmanns, Munich 1979.
  • Lucio Barbera, Saro Gulletta: Diet Sayler. 18 April - 31 May 2009, galeria fortuna arte: Messina 2009.
  • Max Bense, Diet Sayler: Diet Sayler. Exhibition catalog [drawings, pictures, photos; Exhibition from May 16 - June 9, 1978, Studiengalerie, Studium Generale, Univ. Stuttgart]. Stuttgart 1978.
  • Viana Conti, Pier Giulio Bonifacio, Hanswalter Graf , Diet Sayler: Geometry di confine. Tre casi. Bonifacio Count Sayler; dal 19 gennaio al 18 febbraio 1995. Galleria Orti Sauli. Genova 1995.
  • Jan Andrew Nilsen : Statsfiender. Et østeuropeisk memento til vesten. Møte med opposisjonelle and others in the soviet / Russia, Lithuania, Romania and GDR. (Public enemies. An Eastern European warning to the West. Talks with opposition members and others in Soviet Russia, Lithuania, Romania and the GDR.) Dissident Forlag, Florø 1997.
  • Richard W. Gassen, Roxana Theodorescu, Jan Sekera, Michael Harriso, Vera Molnar, Lida von Mengden, Dora Maurer, Jan Andrew Nilsen, Waldo Balart, Nathan Cohen, Paul Brand, Ward Jackson, Mel Gooding, Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg , Paul Gherasim : Diet Sayler. Monograph, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg 1999.
  • Eugen Gomringer; Diet Sayler: five lines. five words. Portfolio. Ingolstadt 1976.
  • Eugen Gomringer, Hans Jörg Glattfelder, Lida von Mengden, Herwig Graef, Vera Molnar, Ruth Ziegler, Ewald Jeutter, Michael Eissenhauer, Michael Harrison, Vincenzo Accame : Get an idea of ​​Diet Sayler. Monograph. Graef Verlag, Nuremberg 2007.
  • Saro Gulletta, Lucio Barbera, Ruth Ziegler, Vincenzo Accama, Michael Eissenhauer, Marcello Faletra, Michael Harrison, Herwig Graef, Diet Sayler, Diet: La pittura non mente. Painting does not lie. Monograph. Magika Edizioni. Messina 2009.
  • Bernhard Kerber, Diet Sayler: Diet Sayler. May 1984, exhibition catalog, Brigitte Hilger Gallery, Aachen. Aachen 1984.
  • Lida von Mengden: Diet Sayler. Monograph. Modern Art Publishing House, Nuremberg 1994.
  • Jürgen Morschel, Diet Sayler: Diet Sayler. Lines. June 6th-14th August 1982 Artforum Frankfurt. Frankfurt 1982.
  • Uwe Obier: Vera Röhm, Diet Sayler. July 5 - August 11, 1991. Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid 1991.
  • Diet Sayler: Five lines. Text by Elisabeth Axmann. Portfolio. Friedberg 1983.
  • Diet Sayler: Seven lines. Text by Heiner Stachelhaus. Portfolio. Friedberg 1983.
  • Diet Sayler: Four lines. Text by Dietmar Guderian. Portfolio. Friedberg 1983.
  • Diet Sayler (ed.): 10 years class Sayler. Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, 1993–2003; [on the occasion of the Sayler class exhibitions: Kunstverein Hochfranken Selb June 1 - July 12, 2003, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg November 12 - December 14, 2003]. Nuremberg 2003.
  • Lucie Schauer: Vera Röhm, Diet Sayler. Body time movement; New Berlin Art Association April 10 - May 12, 1990; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen August 11 - September 23, 1990. New Berlin Art Association. Berlin 1990.
  • Helmut Schneider, Diet Sayler: Diet Sayler. Exhibition March 3 - April 30, 1983 Galerie Hermanns. Hermanns Gallery. Munich 1983.
  • Peter Volkwein: Diet Sayler, basic concepts. Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt, March 19, 1993 - April 18, 1994; Muzeul Banatului, Timisoara, October 15 - November 30, 1993; BWA Museum, Lublin, December 10, 1993 - January 26, 1994. Ingolstadt 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Andrew Nilsen: "Staatsfeinde" Dissident Verlag, Oslo 1988.
  2. ↑ Culture Awards of the City of Nuremberg 2018. In: City of Nuremberg. July 25, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sayler, Diet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Romania