Peter Schmiedel Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1929 - d. 1997

Schmiedel attended the Waldorf School in Dresden until it was banned. He had to witness the bombing of the city as a teenager at the Neustädter Bahnhof, which shaped his life. In 1949 he graduated from high school and shortly afterwards left the FDJ for political reasons, so that he was no longer allowed to study in the GDR. That is why he went to the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts in 1950, where he studied painting with Alexander Camaro and Hans Uhlmann and became a master student with Uhlmann in 1955.

In 1971 he received a professorship in the visual communication department at the Berlin School of Fine Arts, which merged with other institutes to form the Berlin University of the Arts in 1975, where he taught painting and graphics. He lived in Berlin as a freelance artist after his retirement in Upper Styria, where he also died in 1997.

As a painter of the Informel, Peter Schmiedel mainly dealt with the three basic colors blue, yellow and red, which - coming from Goethe's color theory - he used in almost all of his works, especially in watercolors, paintings and woodcuts. The somewhat muted colors of the fifties were replaced by brighter ones, after which black no longer appeared in his colored works.

Later figurative elements such as landscapes, clouds or figures also appeared. The latter he also realized as a master student of a sculptor in wood. In his numerous black and white works he tried to continue to implement "the image-creating energies of the form obtained from the color" [2] as in his colored works.