Wilfried Sätty

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.

Sätty
Born
Wilfried Podriech

(1939-04-12)April 12, 1939
Bremen, Germany
DiedJanuary 31, 1982(1982-01-31) (aged 42)
2141 Powell Street, San Francisco, California, United States
Stylecollage

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 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]

He released two collage volumes, The Cosmic Bicycle (1971) and Time Zone (1973), as well as a number of other collections. 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
  1. Bisbort, Alan (1996). The White Rabbit and Other Delights: East Totem West, a Hippie Company, 1967-1969. Pomegranate. ISBN 9780764900112.
  2. Albright, Thomas (2 February 1982). "Another Ghost of the 60's Is Gone". The San Francisco Chronicle. ISSN 1932-8672.
  3. "Wilfried Sätty". Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. July 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  4. "Wilfried Satty Biography". The Annex Galleries. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
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