Siegfried Anzinger - Buy or sell works
(born in Weyer, Upper Austria, 25 February 1953)
Siegfried Anzinger, the painter, graphic artist and sculptor, co-founded the ‘Neue Wilden’ at the beginning of the 1980s, along with Erwin Bohatsch, Gunter Damisch, Alois Moosbacher, Hubert Scheibl and Hubert Schmalix.
After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Siegfried Anzinger went to Cologne, which became his second home, after Vienna. He received awards for his work from a young age, including the Oskar Kokoschka Prize and the revered Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts. His works of art were shown at national and international art fairs and exhibitions (Biennale, documenta ...) from as early as the 1980s onwards. In 1997, he was appointed professor of painting at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art.
Siegfried Anzinger’s works of art are characterized by spontaneity and playful lightness, serving as a response to the bourgeois art of the previous decade. The ‘non-finito’, the ‘unfinished’, is also extremely important for his paintings. Siegfried Anzinger sometimes painted over his pictures several times, with some of his paintings covered with up to twenty layers of paint.
While Anzinger’s early works are greatly expressive, his later work is marked by a sense of withdrawal. He works in series and paints several pictures simultaneously, too: ‘Usually, I work mostly at night. At night the light only falls on the canvas. All the other objects are in shadow, so I can’t easily be distracted. Plus, at night I sometimes really feel like an artist, it’s quiet, I can only hear the brush. Sometimes at night I have a sense that I’m a really great painter, while in the brightness of day, everything is much more normal. At night, imagination and feeling come to the fore, during the day they are more concentrated, more down-to-earth; daytime is more realistic. My secret for a good painting lies in starting it at night and finishing it by day.’ (Siegfried Anzinger in: Siegfried Anzinger, Malerei und Terrakotten, AK Galerie Welz, Salzburg 2007)