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Wilfried Sätty
Wilfried Sätty (; 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. Sätty moved to San Francisco in 1965 where he got a job at Bay Area Rapid Transit as a draftsman. He died in 1982 from "a fall from a ladder while inebriated." 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''. 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 The National Museum in Warsaw (, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bremen, Germany
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. With about 577,000 inhabitants, the Hanseatic city is the 11th-largest city of Germany and the second-largest city in Northern Germany after Hamburg. Bremen is the largest city on the River Weser, the longest river flowing entirely in Germany, lying some upstream from its mouth into the North Sea at Bremerhaven, and is completely surrounded by the state of Lower Saxony. Bremen is the centre of the Northwest Metropolitan Region, which also includes the cities of Oldenburg and Bremerhaven, and has a population of around 2.8 million people. Bremen is contiguous with the Lower Saxon towns of Delmenhorst, Stuhr, Achim, Weyhe, Schwanewede and Lilienthal. There is an exclave of Bremen in Bremerhaven, the "Citybremian Overseas Port Area Bremerh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
