Wilfried Satty

Wilfried Sätty , Sätty or Satty , born as Wilfried Podriech (born April 12, 1939 in Bremen ; † January 31, 1982 in San Francisco ), was a German graphic artist of the hippie and beat generation who lived in the USA , especially in California , was best known for its black and white graphics.

life and work

Podriech grew up in Bremen, which was badly damaged by the war . After completing an apprenticeship as a mechanic , he first worked in Canada and finally moved to San Francisco in 1961. There Podriech worked for a few years as a steward on cruise ships that sailed the Pacific , later as a designer for heating and ventilation systems.

Death certificate for Wilfried Podriech, aka SÄTTY

He lived in North Beach , a suburb of San Francisco that at the time was a center of the beat and hippie movement with which he came into contact in this way. In 1966 Podriech sold his first large-scale collages , followed by numerous colored works, lithographs and hundreds of black and white collages. In the 1970s, many of these appeared in publications by the '68 movement , but also in established media. His two collage volumes, The Cosmic Bicycle and Time Zone , were published, followed by extensive volumes on Dracula and the works of Edgar Allan Poe . Until his death as a result of falling from a ladder in his house, "Sätty", as he later called himself, created numerous collages, which mainly had events from the history of the city of San Francisco as their content.

Works (selection)

• The Cosmic Bicycle (1971)
• Time Zone (1973)
• The Annotated Dracula (1975)
• The Hasheesh Eater (1975)
• The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe (1976)
• Visions of Frisco: An Imaginative Depiction of San Francisco during the Gold Rush & The Barbary Coast Era ( posthumous 2008)

reception

"His work evidenced his Germanic roots with a somber, dreamlike realm of utopian, surrealist fantasy spiced by disarming accents of the bizarre and grotesque."

- Thomas Albright, San Francisco Chronicle

His works have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including here:

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Museum of Modern Art , New York City
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• National Museum Warsaw

Web links

• Information about Wilfried Sätty
• Information about "Sätty" with some of his work
• further information and examples
• Cover by The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe from 1976
• different works
• Michael Bowen: Sätty is Dead

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Satty
2. ^ The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe
3. ↑ Wilfried Podriech / Sätty

Remarks

1. ↑ His work was evidence of his German roots with a dark, dream-like realm of utopian, surrealistic fantasies, enriched with disarming accents of the strange and grotesque.