Fred Sieger
oil on canvas, framed , signed ,dated 1966
60x73 cm
Fred Sieger was a Dutch painter, collagist and teacher.
In 1948 Sieger represented Dutch painting at the Venice Biennale and in 1951 he became a teacher at the art academy in Arnhem. A few years later he took part in the first high-profile exhibition of the Informele Groep, with Armando, Jan Schoonhoven and Henk Peeters among others.
After that Sieger went his own way. He was guided by personal discoveries and fascinations. Sieger’s definitive breakthrough did not take place in the Netherlands but in Denmark, where his elaborate paintings were highly appreciated from the early 1960s onwards. A well-known Danish critic once aptly described his work as ‘colouristic chamber music’.
In the 1950s he married the American artist Helen White.
He lived and worked in Arnhem and from 1965 in Zevenaar. He was a self-taught painter and taught at the Academy for Visual Arts and Applied Arts in Arnhem. In 1965 he received the cultural prize of the municipality of Arnhem.
Work by Fred Sieger can be found in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen, Museum Henriette Polak in Zutphen, Museum Schloss Moyland in Bedburg-Hau (D) and in many private collections at home and abroad.
