Malte Sartorius '69 Woodblock Noted German Printmaker

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Outstanding woodcut print of a train station by important German printmaker Malte Sartorius (b. 1933). The following biography is from the Francis Kyle Gallery in London, which has represented Sartorius for many years: Malte Sartorius was born in Waldlinden, Germany, 1933 and studied at Göttingen and at Stuttgart Academy of Art under Karl Rössing. A revered teacher of graphic art at Braunschweig College of Art for some forty years, he has held over eighty one-man exhibitions in public and private galleries in Europe and North America during this period and is the recipient of numerous national and international prizes and awards, most recently receiving 1st prize for engraving in the Ninth International Bienal at Ourense, Spain. Some sixty public collections have acquired Sartorius’ work, including Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Landesmuseum, Münster; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva; Library of Congress, Washington; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; and Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro. Malte Sartorius has been represented by Francis Kyle Gallery since 1982 and has held five one-man exhibitions in 1984, 1986, 1989, 2001 and 2008. In 1986, on the occasion of the Ridgeway Exhibition , the Gallery published a limited edition portfolio of his read more