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until 23.08. | #4754ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from Friday, 28. June 2025 the exhibition “Die Erfindung der Landschaft” by the artist Gottfried Salzmann.
Gottfried Salzmann, born near Salzburg in 1943, has lived and worked in Paris since 1965. 1972 first prize for drawing Pierre David-Weill of the Institut de France, Paris, and Theodor Körner Prize in Vienna. 1982 major monograph by Walter Koschatzky, director of the Albertina in Vienna. In the same year, retrospective at the Albertina with catalogue. Also in 1982, monograph by Wieland Schmied on the charcoal and ink works. 2011 Awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. Extensive publications appeared in 2023 to mark the artist’s eightieth birthday, including a volume on his landscapes published by Edition Dittmar.
Gottfried Salzmann opened up completely new scope for watercolour, charcoal and ink drawings. Art critics recognised their importance at an early stage; as early as the beginning of the seventies they were highly praised. In the course of his career, Salzmann developed new fields of activity and also thematised the urban landscape using photographic material and collage techniques, whereby the landscape remained a focal point of his work, even with the inclusion of new techniques.
Gottfried Salzmann, Saint-Palais, Cher, 1974, Aquarell, 31 x 50 cm
In Salzmann’s work, the landscape becomes a laboratory, a testing ground and a problem of perception. The pictures have their own time, Lorand Hegyi speaks of the existential temporal autonomy of the works (Gottfried Salzmann, Berlin 2023, p. 12). It lends nature an objectivity and keeps it free of all emotional content and projections. There is a double play of surface and depth; the suspension of proximity and distance corresponds to the ambivalence of autonomous colourfulness and references to objects. Fragmentation and allusions are a means of increasing the intensity. The white of the paper has a wide variety of functions, the brightness becomes light, the white defines the figurative and suggests, against all probability, volume; in the drawings, on the other hand, emptiness is a supporting element of tension.
Opening: Saturday, 28. June 2025, 12 – 6 pm.
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 28. June until Saturday, 23. August 2025
To the gallery
Image caption title: Gottfried Salzmann, Bretagne, Pleyben I, 1969, Charcoal on paper, 33 x 50 cm
Exhibition Gottfried Salzmann – Galerie Dittmar | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
