Karl-Ludwig Sauer

Karl Ludwig Sauer in front of one of his works (2006)

Karl-Ludwig Sauer (born March 9, 1949 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) is a German artist .

Life

Sauer is the son of a craftsman in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in the Palatinate. He studied from 1970 to 1976 at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and successfully completed his studies as a master class student under Professor Martin Engelman .

In the 1980s, Sauer went to Altea in Spain. After his return to Germany, the main place of activity is Berlin . Karl Ludwig Sauer has also been working in Csurgó, Hungary, for several years .

Sauer created works in the fields of free painting , graphics / book art , artist books , sculpture , video art and audiovisual media.

The artist's books and portfolios can be found in the Kupferstichkabinett , the University Library of the Free University of Berlin and the Berlin State Library . Sauer himself about his art: “My art should come from the depths, and yet be clear and definite. It should not be compulsory, and still be strong. Art should be good and in this sense beautiful, but it doesn't want to please ”.

Work groups

Sauer's work includes the following object and subject areas to this day:

Abstract and free painting
Sculpture: sculptures and objects made of stone, wood, cement, clay and found objects
graphic
Book art, artist books, painting books
Portfolios
Digital media
Video art
Abstract music compositions

Important works

Blue Woman (canvas painting Berlin 1973)
Four-color lithograph Möwe (lithography workshop Hostrup Petersen and Johannsen, Copenhagen / Denmark), 1978, 64.5 × 48 cm

Dance of Death - an attempt (11 lithographs, 5 of them in color, with handwritten additions in a linen portfolio)

Unique book / artist book Georg Baselitz (Baselitz goes, Sauer comes) (Kupferstichkabinett Berlin), 2005

Artist video Hildegard von Bingen (2006)

Artist book (1997) "I search and I find" in the Berlin State Library

Graphic portfolios drypoint “Mask-Text”, “Light-Text” (both October 1982, 20 × 20 cm) as well as various woodcuts and graphics in the Landesmuseum Mainz

Exhibitions

1974: Free Berlin Art Exhibition
1975: BBK exhibition on the occasion of the “Socialist International” Berlin
1976: Berlin University of the Arts, “Thomasweg 3” gallery, Buchholz
1977: Annual report or review of the Charlottenburg Art Office in Berlin
1977: "Impulse", Hamburger Sparkasse
1977: "Prix de Cassel", Kassel
1978: Gallery Bi, Reinbek Castle
1978: Gallery in the central library in Hamburg
1979: 9th Free Berlin Art Exhibition
1979: Fritz Vehring Gallery, Syke
1979: Galerie Bau-Galerie Delmes, Hamburg
1981: Studio exhibitions: "A year in Spain - review" and "Lithographs"
1982: Gallery COMPUTER + ART, Hamburg
1982: CRI CRI Gallery, Amsterdam
1983: Free Berlin Art Exhibition
1983: Group exhibition in the gallery AUF ZEIT, Berlin
1983: State art exhibition Rhineland-Palatinate
1983: Middle Rhine State Museum, Mainz
1986: "Plus - Minus", Hamburg tax authority
1987: "Altea 1979/1980", Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
1993: Palatinate State Library, Speyer
1993: Rheinische Landesbibliothek, Koblenz
1993: Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg, Lüneburg
1996/1997: University Library of the Free University of Berlin
2013: "Government images" Landschaftsverband Stade

Individual evidence

↑ Altea 1980, "Malerische Collagen", article in the catalog of the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
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Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Sauer, Karl-Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neustadt an der Weinstrasse

[1] Altea 1980, "Malerische Collagen", article in the catalog of the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern

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