Diet Sayler

Diet Sayler (* 1939 in Timisoara, Romania ) is a German painter and sculptor.

School, education, early work

Diet Sayler studied structural engineering at the Technical University in Timisoara (1956-1961) and painting in the class of Julius Podlipny. In the early sixties he developed an abstract painting that was defamed as decadent west and excluded from all exhibitions. Only in 1968 during the Prague Spring made ​​a breakthrough.

The exhibition " 5 young artists " exhibited at the Galeria Kalinderu in Bucharest for the first time abstract and constructivist art in Romania. Sayler moved to Bucharest and could henceforth exhibit abroad, but was not allowed to travel with. 1971, the political climate changed. Springtime for reforms in Bucharest was finished and in the following years were not allowed to be shown Sayler's work. Sayler gave some interviews in the foreign press, and then fell definitely into isolation.

Emigration and international exhibition activity

With the emigration to Germany Sayler moved in 1973 his life and work center to Nuremberg, where he was also active as a lecturer in addition to his artistic work from 1976. In 1975 he showed his work at the Grand Palais in Paris for the first time. This was followed by solo exhibitions at the gallery Hermanns in Munich and later in the Galleria Lorenzelli in Milan and at the Galeria Edurne in Madrid. Now his work he presented in many Western European countries and in Brazil, Japan and the United States. In 1990, after the fall of the Iron Curtain retrospectives of Diet Sayler also in Eastern Europe, in Prague, Czech Museum, Vasarely Museum in Budapest and shown at the National Museum of Bucharest.

The exhibition series "concrete" in Nuremberg ( 1980-1990 ), for whose guidance he was responsible, experienced international attention. About a hundred different artists participated, including Dan Flavin, Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Martin, Vera Molnar, Francois Morellet, Aurélie Nemours, Mario Nigro, Leon Polk Smith and Jesús Rafael Soto. 1988 Sayler curated the German - French exhibition " design and layout " in Berlin. In the same year he was awarded the Camille Graeser Prize in Zurich. In addition to the exhibitions of painting, graphics, sculpture and photography, a number of site-specific installations took place: Gallery Grare Paris, Palazzo Ducale Genoa, East West Gallery New York, St. Peter Cambridge, Gallery A London, Elly Cathedral, University Gallery Pilsen, MUWA Graz, Museo CAMEC La Spezia.

Teaching

From 1992 to 2005 Diet Sayler is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. A teaching assignment was in 1995 as a guest lecturer at the Statens Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. Following his retirement in 2006, he took over the management of the XIII. Summer Academy in Plauen.

Work

The young Diet Sayler enthusiastic about Brancusi and Malevich. At the beginning of his career he was mainly from Suprematism and the Russian Revolution inspired art. He studied the theories and works of the artists of De Stijl and the Bauhaus. Dadaism he borrowed his later work causative random.

For Concrete Art Sayler found from opposition to the political reality and the doctrine of socialist realism. The drive for change is a leitmotif of his work. Sayler's early works are very colorful. During the years of denial and opposition, the color disappears and Sayler work dress in sober black and white. After the culture shock of emigration is only thin lines found on white canvases. Towards the end of the eighties Sayler developed a system of basic elements that are part of the repertoire of his painting. The color returns. There arise the times of deceit Bivalenzen and throwing pieces ( with random ). In the late 1990s, the wall pieces ( bodies) and the engrams ( Norigramme ) arise as a site-specific installations in the city architecture. In parallel, develop the joints in the rooms of museums, churches and galleries.

Museums

  • Albertina, Vienna
  • Museum and Art Gallery Birmingham, Birmingham
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York City
  • Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble
  • Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Bayreuth
  • Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt
  • New Gallery (Kassel ), Kassel
  • Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
  • Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg
  • East German Gallery, Regensburg
  • Ritter Museum, Forest book
  • Museum in the cultural memory, Würzburg
  • National Museum of Bucharest, Bucharest
  • Muzeul de Arta Timişoara, Timişoara
  • Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Exhibitions - Selection from 2000

  • 2013 Diet Sayler: The Reality of poetry. Neues Museum Nuremberg
  • New gallery - new saw. Neue Galerie, Kassel
  • Structure & energy. The Need for Abstraction. 418 Gallery, Bucharest
  • Chance as Strategy. Vasarely Muzeum, Budapest
  • Ornamental structures. Kunstverein Pforzheim
  • Artists from Romania abroad. Gallery Emilia Suciu, Ettlingen
  • Beautiful views. Reopening of the Neue Galerie. Neue Galerie, Kassel.
  • Ornament - Seriality. Vasarely Museum, Budapest.
  • De lineas, formas, medidas, color y materia. Galeria Edurne, Madrid.
  • Diet Sayler: Norigramme. Muzeul de Arta, Timisoara.
  • Ornamental Structures. City Gallery Saarbrücken.
  • Diet Sayler: Fuga ligure. Museo CAMeC, La Spezia.
  • Couleur & geometry. Actualité de l'art construit européen. Musées de Sens.
  • The New Gallery - appearance in the castle Neue Galerie, Kassel.
  • Twenty-six Gasoline Stations Ed Altri Libri DArtista. Museo Regionale di Messina.
  • Diet Sayler: painting does not lie. Kunstmuseum Bayreuth.
  • L' oblique. Musée du Chateau de Montbéliard.
  • Diet Sayler: La Pittura non segments. Fortuna Arte, Messina.
  • Reflections upon Drawing. BWA Lublin.
  • Spazio Libro d' Artista. Palazzo Manganelli, Catania.
  • See up close and very far away. Städtische Galerie Erlangen.
  • Diet Sayler. Galerie Ursula Huber, Basel.
  • Diet Sayler. Galerie der Moderne, Munich.
  • Diet Sayler. Retrospective Städtische Galerie Erlangen.
  • Arhiva Demarco. Brukenthal National Museum Sibiu.
  • Dialogue between the generations. Forum concrete art, Erfurt.
  • Intelligible Non- Violent. Art Atlas Sztuki, Lodz.
  • Still & Consistently. The collection Uwe Obier, Kunstverein victories.
  • Movement square. Ritter Museum, Forest book.
  • Kolekcja W centrum wydarzen. Zacheta, Lublin.
  • Diet Sayler. University Gallery Pilsen.
  • Diet Sayler and Tatsushi Kawanabe. art gallery fürth, Fürth.
  • Diet Sayler. BWA Lublin.
  • Motiva. Austria Center Vienna, Vienna.
  • Square. Opening Exhibition Museum Ritter, Forest book.
  • Identidades. Galeria Edurne, Madrid.
  • Always concrete terms. The Hubertus Schoeller Foundation. Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren.
  • Diet Sayler. Gallery Uwe Sacksofsky, Heidelberg.
  • La boite en valise or The New World is located in Europe. Academy of Fine Arts, Prague.
  • Yellow and gold. Linde Gallery Hollinger, Ladenburg.
  • Experiment concretely. Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt.
  • Tangible Europe. Altana Gallery, Dresden.
  • Art shows, which are not seen. Städtische Galerie Erlangen.
  • Diet Sayler. Linde Gallery Hollinger, Ladenburg.
  • Diet Sayler. Gallery Art in progress, Bamberg.
  • Concrete Art - unity and diversity. Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle.
  • Segni e Contesti. Studio B2, Genoa.
  • Diet Sayler. , Nottingham Trent University.
  • Diet Sayler: Geometria e tempo. Palazzo Ducale, Genoa.
  • Art for Kaliningrad - Königsberg. Kaliningrad State Art Gallery.
  • Diet Sayler. Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague.
  • Diet Sayler. Retrospective Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.

Literature selection - monographs, catalogs

  • Anca Arghir, Eugen Gomringer: Diet Sayler. Changes. Herrmann's Gallery, Munich 1979.
  • Lucio Barbera, Saro Gulletta: Diet Sayler. 18 Aprile - 31 Maggio 2009 gallery fortuna arte: Messina 2009.
  • Max Bense, Diet Sayler: Diet Sayler. Exhibition catalog [ drawings, pictures, photographs; Exhibition from 16 May to 9 June 1978 Study Gallery, General Studies, Univ. Stuttgart ]. Stuttgart 1978.
  • Viana Conti, Pier Giulio Bonifacio, Hans Walter Graf, Diet Sayler: Geometry di confine. Tre casi. Bonifacio Count Sayler; dal 19 gennaio al 18 febbraio 1995. Galleria Orti Sauli. Genova 1995.
  • Richard W. alleys, Roxana Theodorescu Jan Sekera, Michael Harrison, Vera Molnar, Lida Mengden, Dora Maurer Jan Andrew Nilsen, Waldo Balart, Nathan Cohen, Paul Brand, Jackson Ward, Mel Gooding, Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg, Paul Gherasim: Diet Sayler. Monograph, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg 1999.
  • Eugen Gomringer; Diet Sayler: five lines. five words. Mappenwerk. Ingolstadt 1976.
  • Eugen Gomringer, Hans Jörg Glattfelder, Lida Mengden, Herwig Graef, Vera Molnar, Ruth Ziegler, Ewald Jeutter, Michael Eissenhauer, Michael Harrison, Vincenzo Accame: Picturing of Diet Sayler. Monograph. Graef Verlag, Nuremberg 2007.
  • Saro Gulletta, Lucio Barbera, Ruth Ziegler, Vincenzo Accama, Michael Eissenhauer, Marcello Faletra, Michael Harrison, Herwig Graef, Diet Sayler Diet: La pittura non segments. Painting does not lie. Monografia. Magika Edizioni. Messina 2009.
  • Bernhard Kerber, Diet Sayler: Diet Sayler. May 1984 exhibition catalog, Galerie Brigitte Hilger, Aachen. Aachen 1984.
  • Lida Mengden: Diet Sayler. Monograph. Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg 1994.
  • Jürgen Morschel, Diet Sayler: Diet Sayler. Lines. June 6th - 14th August 1982 Artforum Frankfurt. Frankfurt 1982.
  • Uwe Obier: Vera Röhm, Diet Sayler. 5 July to 11 August 1991 Municipal Gallery Lüdenscheid 1991..
  • Diet Sayler: Five lines. Text by Elisabeth Axmann. Mappenwerk. Friedberg 1983.
  • Diet Sayler: Seven lines. Text by Heiner Stachelhaus. Mappenwerk. Friedberg 1983.
  • Diet Sayler: Four lines. Text by Dietmar Guderian. Mappenwerk. Friedberg 1983.
  • Diet Sayler (ed.): 10 years Class Sayler. Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, 1993 - 2003; [ on the occasion of the exhibitions Class Sayler: Art club Hochfranken Selb 1 June to 12 July 2003 Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg 12 November to 14 December 2003]. Nuremberg 2003.
  • Lucie Schauer: Vera Röhm, Diet Sayler. Body movement time; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein April 10 to May 12, 1990; Wilhelm- Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen 11 August to 23 September 1990 New Berliner Kunstverein. . Berlin 1990.
  • Helmut Schneider, Diet Sayler: Diet Sayler. Exhibition 3 March to 30 April 1983 Gallery Hermanns. Gallery Hermanns. Munich 1983.
  • Peter Volkwein: Diet Sayler, basic concepts. Museum of Concrete Art Ingolstadt, 19 March 1993 - 18 April 1994; Muzeul Banatului, Timisoara, 15 October to 30 November 1993 BWA Museum, Lublin, December 10, 1993 - January 26, 1994 in Ingolstadt in 1994..
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