Heinz Saalig

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Heinz Saalig (born July 6, 1922 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 8, 2007 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German painter and sculptor of Neo-Expressionism .

Life

Heinz Saalig was born in Frankfurt am Main. From 1937 to 1939 he trained as a metalworker apprentice. After being a prisoner of war during the Second World War , Saalig studied from 1947 to 1954 at the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main in the class of the sculptor Hans Mettel . In 1954 he married the visual artist Elena Saalig (née Stoltz, 1924–2011).

In the years 1958–1964 Saalig was a private student of the painter Leo Grewenig in Bensheim. In 1964 he acquired his master's certificate as a glass painter . He made up for the Abitur, which was prevented by the war, in 1969 at the evening grammar school in Frankfurt . This then enabled him to study art education , art history , archeology , philosophy and psychology in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1972, Heinz Saalig and his young family settled in a studio and residential building that is part of the reform urban development Frankfurt-Riederwald by architect Ernst May . From there, Saalig worked as a freelance sculptor and painter. During these decades, most of his extensive, largely neo-expressionist oeuvre was created, which includes large- scale sculptures , bronze sculptures , stone reliefs , glass paintings and mosaics as well as fresco-buono - wall paintings , classic oil paintings and tapestries - including many works in public spaces. Saalig's work has been presented at numerous international solo and group exhibitions.

In 1982, together with other artists from the Frankfurt scene, Saalig founded the artist group "Griesheim School", whose spokesman he acted until his death and in which context he ran a private art school.

Heinz Saalig received the YMCA Art Prize of the International Red Cross , the Diplôme d'Honneur of the Salon International Biarritz, the plaque of honor from the International Artists' Exchange and the Heusenstamm Foundation's study award .

On March 6, 2007, Heinz Saalig was the victim of a robbery not far from his studio, in which the perpetrator stole a single-digit amount of money. Presumably as a result of the attack, the artist died a few days later.

The Saalig studio in Frankfurt-Riederwald, which has largely been preserved in its original state, presents a small selection of the artist's works from various creative periods. The studio is open to the public by appointment.

Works (selection)

  • “World Trade Fresco” (1955) Merian School, Frankfurt-Bornheim
  • Mosaic murals “The animals of the city” and “Stork in the nest” (1957) in the Mayor's Gräf House in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen
  • Offset series, bound “New York sketch book. August 5th to 23th 1969 "
  • Sculpture "Flora" (1970) in Berliner Strasse in Maintal-Dörnigheim
  • Sculpture “Papilia” (1971) in Kelkheim / Taunus and a second cast in front of the Saalig studio
  • Wall fresco in Frankfurt-Riederwald (1993)

literature

  • Gerhard Theewen: German Art after 1945, Düsseldorf (1979)
  • Georg Mumm von Schwarzenstein: 125 times art, Frankfurt (1980)
  • Kurt Lotz: The visual artists in Frankfurt / Main, Frankfurt a. M. (1981)
  • Bernard Mabille, La Cote des Arts, Marseille (1982)
  • Isolde Schmidt, 125 years of the Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft, Frank-furt a. M. (1982)
  • Axel Alexander Ziese: Masters of Fine Arts Vol. 2, Nuremberg (1985)
  • Axel Alexander Ziese / Andrée Georges Keszy (eds.): Zeitkunst Vol. 2, Nuremberg (1986)
  • Research Institute of Fine Arts (ed.), General Lexicon of Artists in the Fine and Creative Arts of the XX. and XXI. Century, Nuremberg (1978 ff.)

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Saalig, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor of Neo-Expressionism
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2007
Place of death Frankfurt am Main