Variations (A.K. 45, 1969)*
Description
Size: 100 x 70 cm (with frame 104 x 71 x 4 cm)
Medium: Oil on paper
Signed on the reverse, "Diet Sayler AK45/969"
Provenance
Private Collection
Location
Bucharest
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Description
Diet Sayler is a Romanian painter and sculptor of German ethnicity and a leading figure of the Romanian artistic neo‑avant-garde of the 1960s–1970s. Distancing himself from the regime in Romania, he settled on a visual language deeply rooted in mathematics, music, architecture, movement and seriality. Concerned with the principles of constructivism and geometric abstraction, Sayler aimed to develop an aesthetic of the “rigour,” translated into a visual system based on the dialectic of contrasts and chance. His early series of works include ambitious aesthetic programs, such as Monotypes (1963–1967) and Arhythmical Compositions I–XII (1968–1969). Sayler relocated to Germany in 1972, where he continues to live and work and carried out a significant academic and theoretical activity as Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nurnberg from 1992 to 2005.
Sayler’s works are featured in the collections of international museums and galleries around the world, one of the series of serigraphs which is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York being based on the work Variations (1969) included in this auction.
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