Gottfried Saurbier

Gottfried Saurbier (born December 22, 1904 in Cologne , † October 6, 1971 in Roding ) was a German painter .

After attending elementary school, Gottfried Saurbier initially began an apprenticeship as a decorator, but after a short time changed the training position and then learned to be a goldsmith. He married his wife Edith in 1930, whom he had met five years earlier. Afterwards both worked as freelance painters and graphic artists in Berlin. At this time Gottfried Saurbier also began to take private painting lessons from a painter friend.

When he returned to Berlin in 1945 after the Second World War , all of the works he had previously created were destroyed by bombs. A few years later he began working as a lecturer in fine arts at the Volkshochschule Berlin-Schöneberg, from 1955 he worked as a work studio manager at the Amerikahaus in Berlin and in this capacity also taught groups of young people in exhibition design, painting and graphics.

In the period from 1950 to 1969 he received several orders for wall paintings from the Berlin Senate. During this time he also took part in several exhibitions.

In 1969 he decided to move with his wife to the village of Wetterfeld near Roding to spend his old age there. The couple built a small wooden house for themselves and then moved there in 1970.

It was not until almost 17 years after his unexpected death in October 1971 - from April 30th to May 15th, 1988 - that an exhibition of his works took place again for the first time in Roding's old town hall. In this exhibition, 57 pictures, graphics and sculptures by the artist were presented to the public.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ exhibition catalog Saurbier the exhibition of the artist in the city of Roding from 30 April to 15 May 1988
2. ↑ A high-ranking work slumbers in secret . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung , 15./16. March 1986, no page number.
   Exhibition - a prime example of citizenship . In: Chamer Zeitung , May 4, 1988, page 14.