Armin Sandig
1929 Hof/Saale - 2015 Hamburg
Armin Sandig, painter and graphic artist, was initially influenced by Max Beckmann, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky and later turned more and more to abstract painting. He has been honored with numerous awards for his work. From 1980 to 2011 he was President of the Free Academy of Arts in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg. For more than three decades he taught life and portrait drawing at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences for Architecture. In his original, mostly whimsical and provocative figural pictures, the boundaries between abstraction and representation become blurred: female figures as grotesque statues, group pictures of enigmatic scenarios in which bodies and body parts are often woven into one another, floating. All these figures, fantasy animals, hands and feet are constantly recurring, poetically playful metaphors for memories, moods and dreams, which are also reflected in the associative titles of the pictures. Despite all the perceptible, content-related themes, the artist was primarily concerned with the painterly process, a free play of line and color, which, as an exciting composition, brings the canvas to life.
“It was the urge to express myself. To express beyond what is indirect with words and gestures. Using color and form to articulate conditions, moods, world views, world designs and dreams that elude verbal expression.” Armin Sandig
Colour etching
Signed & dated
Real wood frame - custom made
Acrylic glass, UV 100, glare-free
FSC-certified timber, 100% Made in Germany, 100% Organic
Size 63 x 43 cm
Provenance | Gallery Germany, Private Collection Germany
Differential taxation according to § 25a UStG. No taxes included. | Differenzbesteuerung nach § 25a UStG. Kunstgegenstände und Sammlungsstücke, Sonderregelung.
