Siegward Sprotte

1913 Born in Potsdam. Studies with Emil Orlik at the Kunstakademie in Berlin. Preferred working locations: Kampen/Sylt, Colfosco/Italien, Potsdam. Organized 50 years of "Kampener Studio Talks / Atelier dialogues"

1992 Founding of the Siegward  "Sprotte Foundation Potsdam"

• 1995 Honorary member of the "Berlin artists association"
• 2003 Becomes honorary citizen of the "city of Potsdam" on his 90th birthday
• 2003 Sprotte becomes honorary citizen of the region "Alta Badia/Italy"
• 2004 Siegward Sprotte passed away in Kampen / Sylt

Art historian about Sprotte incl. Sir Herbert Read, H.L.C. Jaffé, Philippe dArschot, Franz Roh, Reiner K. Wick, Sílvia Chicó, Heinz Schönemann, Min Xiwen, Dorit Litt, Jutta Götzmann, Anna Havemann, Margret Schütte, Karin Sagner, Christoph Becker

Numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad

Museums:

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
Museum Castle Cappenberg, Selm
Potsdam Museum, Potsdam
Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan
Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest
Kloster Cismar - National museum Schleswig-Holstein, Cismar
and others