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until 17.09. | #3965ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from 21. July 2023 the solo exhibition „Die Landschaft“ with works of the artist Gottfried Salzmann.
Gottfried Salzmann, born in 1943 in Saalfelden near Salzburg, has lived and worked in Paris for over fifty years. 1972 first prize for drawing Pierre David-Weill of the Institut de France, Paris, and Theodor Körner Prize in Vienna. 1982 major monograph by Walter Koschatzky, director of the Albertina in Vienna. In the same year retrospective at the Albertina with catalogue. Also in 1982 monograph by Wieland Schmied on the drawings. 1991 Exhibition at the Rupertinum in Salzburg. 2007 at the Austrian Embassy in Washington D.C. 2011 awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. 2023 on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday, several institutional exhibitions, tributes and book presentations.
Grüne Allee, 1984, Aquarell, 30,5 x 48 cm
The gallery’s exhibition focuses on landscape watercolours and landscape drawings. Although Gottfried Salzmann stands in the tradition of the great watercolour masters, he works quite independently and has opened up new scope for the medium, both in pictorial strategy and in the use of colour. The charcoal and ink drawings form an independent part to a certain extent, but at the same time they are intertwined with the watercolour paintings in many ways and relate to them. The rank, the innovative approach of these groups of works was recognised early on by art critics, who found the highest praise for them as early as the beginning of the 1970s. In the course of time, Salzmann developed new fields of activity and also thematised the urban landscape, incorporating photographic and collage techniques, whereby the landscape, also incorporating new techniques, remained a fixed point for his work.
A comprehensive publication will be published by Edition Dittmar, including an essay by Lorand Hegyi and a detailed annotated biography.
Opening : Friday, 21. July 2023, 12 noon until 6pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, 21. July until Sunday, 17. September 2023
To the Gallery
Image caption: Des traces d‘arbres, Kohle auf Papier, 1988, 65,5 × 83 cm
Exhibition Gottfried Salzmann – Galerie Dittmar | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
