Peter Sylvester

The years 1955/56 saw his first attempts at painting, intensified not least by a visit to the studio of the painter Max Ackermann in Stuttgart.

[1] On the occasion of the 15th exhibition, Peter Sylvester became its director and, after its transformation into an association, was its chairman from 1991 until his death.

This was followed in 1983, 1984 and 1985 by working stays as a guest in the Cité internationale des arts Paris and in Aix-en-Provence and Morlans/Mont Ventoux (Provence).

[2] Peter Sylvester was awarded the medal of the V International Biennial of Graphic Arts Cracow in 1974.

From 1976 onwards, he used a device based on video technology, the densitron, developed at the Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR for the evaluation of scientific images, in order to work on two-dimensional graphics such as aquatint, for example.

Similarities were also found with the surreal landscape forms of the battered nature of the overburden in the open-cast lignite mines of the southern Leipzig region.

The "Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler" (BBK) lists the following institutions in which works by Peter Sylvester are in public possession:[4] Aalborg, KUNSTEN – Museum of modern art | Altenburg, Lindenau-Museum | Kupferstichkabinett Berlin | Dresden City Art Gallery Grafische Sammlung | Erfurt, Angermuseum | Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste | Halle (Saale), Kunstmuseum Moritzburg [de] | Oberhausen, Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen [de] | Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France | National Gallery Prague | Quedlinburg, Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie [de] | Rostock Art Gallery | Staatliches Museum Schwerin | National Museum, Warsaw