Siegward Sprotte
S161 “Mohn,” 1988
Lithograph, signed, dated and numbered in pencil,
edition of 400.
Based on the watercolor of the same name.
Image: 26 x 19¾ Paper: 32 x 25
S98 "Hohe Himmel,"1986
Serigraph.44/200
25½ x 19½ inches (framed 39x30)
Over a lengthy and distinguished career Siegward Sprotte achieved a delicate balance between naturalism and abstraction. His singular vision of nature and a restrained, almost minimalist style have been called a bridge between Eastern and Western art.
Born in 1913 in Potsdam, Germany, Sprotte lived most of his life on the island of Sylt in the North Sea. His studio talks on art and philosophy achieved considerable fame, as younger artists came to pay homage to a living legend of European contemporary art. He was the subject of books by art critics such as Herbert Read, who further developed Sprotte’s concept that art was language, that is, a non-verbal form of communication .
Sprotte’s work resides in many major museum collections such as: the Mellon Collection, Washington D.C.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
Berlin Museum of Art
Pushkin Museum, Moskow
Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
Albertina Museum, Vienna.
S159 “Hommage à Hans Hartung,” 1986
Lithograph, signed, edition of 400.
I: 18 x 23 inches P:22¼ x 27½
S160 “Chromatische Grün -Brennessel,” 1979
Lithograph, signed, from the edition of 400.
Image: 23½ x 18 inches, Paper: 29 x 24 (framed 33 x 27 ½ )