Designer · Germany · 1929–2015
Armin Sandig
Armin Sandig (1929–2015) – German painter and graphic artist from Hamburg, president of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg, 1980–2011.
About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1929–2015
- Country
- Germany
Armin Sandig was born on 10 March 1929 in Hof an der Saale and died on 7 August 2015 in Hamburg, where he had lived since 1951. He was self-taught; initially, he was influenced by Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. His early works are classified as Tachisme; from 1970 onwards, figuration predominated in his work.
He received, among others, the Lichtwark Scholarship (1960), the Edwin Scharff Prize (1972) and the Friedrich Baur Prize (1992). From 1980 to 2011, he was president of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg, and in 2002 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He published numerous portfolios of prints, including etchings and colour lithographs. His works are held in the collections of Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Bremen, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Museum Ludwig in Cologne and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
