Manfred Salow

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Manfred Salow (* 1943 in Friedland ) is a German artist and sculptor . He was an unofficial employee (IM) of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR.

Manfred Salow has experience as an artist and sculptor in both German states. He gained notoriety, among other things, when Manfred Krug made his work for the MfS public under the code name "Salmann".

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  • 1965: Studies at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin
  • 1970: Graduated as a qualified sculptor and started working as a freelance sculptor in Berlin
  • 1982: Study visit to Moscow, where he studied monumental sculpture
  • 1990: start painting

Salow had well-known collectors of his own art early on. Krug, Siegfried Matthus , Eberhard Esche and Markus Wolf were among them. He has published a children's book (1980) with Peter Hacks .

Among other things, bronze portrait heads of Gerhard Rommel (1971), Hacks (1976), Krug (1977) and Esche (1976) and Wolf (1989), as well as posthumously by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1982) and Friedrich Wolf (1988) were created ). Manfred Salow also worked as a portrait sculptor after German reunification .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salow: I spied on Manfred Krug . Tagesspiegel.de of September 19, 2008, accessed on January 6, 2016
  2. ↑ Martin Zips: Macrophallia at the Stasi . Sueddeutsche.de from May 17, 2010, accessed on January 6, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Salow, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, sculptor and IM
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedland