Wilfried Sätty
Sätty | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wilfried Podriech April 12, 1939 |
| Died | January 31, 1982 (aged 42) 2141 Powell Street, San Francisco, California, United States |
| Style | collage |
Wilfried Sätty (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlfʁiːt ˈzɛti]; born Wilfried Podriech; April 12, 1939 – January 31, 1982) was a German graphic artist best known for his black and white collage art.
Biography
Born in Bremen, Germany, Sätty lived through multiple Allied bombings of Germany during World War II.[1] Sätty moved to San Francisco in 1965 where he got a job at Bay Area Rapid Transit as a draftsman.[1]
He released two collage volumes, The Cosmic Bicycle (Straight Arrow Books, 1971) and Time Zone (Straight Arrow Books, 1973), as well as a number of other collections.
He died in 1982 from "a fall from a ladder while inebriated."[2] Sätty's final work was published in 2007 by the recipient of his estate, architect and art historian Walter Medeiros, as Visions of Frisco: an Imaginative Depiction of San Francisco during the Gold Rush & the Barbary Coast Era.[3]
His works have been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Museum, Warsaw.[4]
References
- ^ a b Bisbort, Alan (1996). The White Rabbit and Other Delights: East Totem West, a Hippie Company, 1967-1969. Pomegranate. ISBN 9780764900112.
- ^ Albright, Thomas (2 February 1982). "Another Ghost of the 60's Is Gone". The San Francisco Chronicle. ISSN 1932-8672.
- ^ "Wilfried Sätty". Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. July 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ^ "Wilfried Satty Biography". The Annex Galleries. Retrieved 23 December 2020.