Friedrich Sieber (painter)

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Friedrich Sieber (born December 15, 1925 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia , † August 29, 2002 ) was a German painter and artist .

From 1950 he studied at the Stuttgart Art Academy . His teacher at the time, to whom he particularly refers, was Professor Manfred Henninger .

In 1956, together with Georg Karl Pfahler , Günther C. Kirchberger and Attila Biró, he founded Group 11 , which was based on Action Painting and Informel . At the beginning of the 1960s he turned away from Informel and found a language of form that combined constructive elements with those of color field painting .

literature

  • Stephan Geiger (Ed.): Gruppe 11 (1956-1959), attila biró, günther c. kirchberger, georg karl pfahler, friedrich sieber , exhib.cat . Geiger Gallery, Kornwestheim 1996.
  • Stephan Geiger: Günther C. Kirchberger and group 11 - The Departure into the International (Issue 2 Series of the GC Kirchberger Archives), Gallery in the East Wing, Filseck Castle 2019, ISBN 978-3-9819931-1-0 .

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