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Siegward Sprotte (* April 20 1913 in Potsdam; † September 7 2004 in Kampen/ Sylt) Citizenship - German, honorary citizen of Potsdam and Alta Badia (Italy), artist, writer and philosopher.

Life
Siegward Sprotte, was the son of the Potsdam postman Walter Sprotte and his wife Friedel, née Henning, graduated Realgymnasium in Potsdam in 1931. After private lessons in figurative drawing with Adolf Dahle in August and September 1931, he studied in Berlin at the Prussian Academy of Arts (until 1938), with Emil Orlik, Kurt Welte and Maximilian Klewer among others]. There was a close friendship with the Brandenburg artist Karl Hagemeister (1848-1933).

His paintings have generated considerable interest since 1931; In 1937 his father joined the NSDAP. His paintings were shown at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1939, 1941 (also at the exchange exhibition ), in 1942 and presented in 1944 with a total of 10 papers. His work after 1945 was very well received.

A lifelong friendship connected him with the gardener and breeder Karl Foerster (1874-1970), who lived in Potsdam from 1911. Sprotte lived in Potsdam until 1945. From 1945 he spent half a year in Kampen on the island of Sylt, where his workshop and exhibition studio were also located. Manfred Wedemeyer: Two Artists on Sylt, 2007, p. 23 -25 (as of October 24, 2011). His yearly rhythm of work alternated between north and south between Kampen, Berlin and Potsdam, as well as Italy, France, Portugal and Madeira.

Siegward Sprotte fled his hometown of Bornstedt after a major air raid on Potsdam and its environs on 14 April 1945. He was accompanied by his future wife, Iris Eckert. The marriage took place in Husum on May 26, 1945. On January 21, 1946, a daughter, Sylvia, was born. The couple had lived on Sylt since 1945. In 1952, the first gallery of Siegvard Sprotte was built in Kampen on the site of what was then Hogenkampsweg. Because the showroom had a glass roof, his house became known as the "Glass Roof House". The family lived in his house and workshop. Sprott exhibited his paintings in a glass-roofed house. In the evenings, numerous cultural events took place with the participation of famous personalities such as Pascual Jordan, Jan Gebser, Professor Otto Hitzberger, Professor Mensching and many others. Sigward Sprott called these evenings "studio talks". They have become an integral part of the cultural life of Kampen. Iris Sprott left the profession of a doctor to devote herself entirely to the love of her husband and the sale of works by Siegward Sprotte. In 1960, Sigvard Sprott separated from his then wife.

In 1960, his wife Kosmeya gave birth to a son, Armin, who currently runs the Falkenstern Fine Art & Atelier Sprotte gallery in Kampen. Together with his mother, he manages part of the Sprotte estate, now no longer owned by the foundation (under the name "Siegvard-Sprotte Foundation" for the simultaneous study of art), but are the copyright holders.

Siegvard Sprotte was greatly influenced by meetings with important personalities. These include: Hermann Cossack, Eugen Herrigel, Jiddu Krishnamurti, David Bohm, H. LC Jaffé (1915-1984), Herbert Read, Philippe d'Archaud, Will Grohmann, Pierre Berto, Hermann Hesse, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Karl Jaspers, Jean Gebser, Wolfgang Schadewaldt, Herbert von Garvens, Marino Marini, Hanna Höch, Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rotluff, Emil Nolde, Rolf Nesch and Hans Hartung. In 1956, the first meeting took place with the great orator and philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. For 50 years he has been organizing Kampener Atelier Talks events.

Sprotte has written many works on the themes of art, consciousness and modernity, and is the creator of a new eye-to-eye paradigm.

Sigvard Sprotte found his last resting place in Bornstedter Friedhof.

Creativity
Initially, Sprott painted figuratively, including portraits of old masters, drawings, etc. Hermann Hesse, Jean Gebser, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Later, he devoted himself more to the landscape, down to ideograms and color calligraphy. His works include watercolor, gouaches, drawings, oils.

Works Sprottes are found, for example, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; "Shanghai Art Museum", Shanghai; Wuhan Art Museum, China; State Museum of Pushkin, Moscow; Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; Glienicke Castle, Berlin; Kappenberg Castle Museum, Selm; Potsdam Museum; Wilhelm Morgner House Museum, Soest; Cismar Monastery - Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Cismar; Gustav Lübcke Museum, Hamm.

Quotes
“Art is not a temporary measure, it is a vital necessity” (S. Sprotte)

“Where chances decrease, losses increase” (S. Sprotte)

“Recognition is the structure of education” (S. Sprotte).

"Swap horizons - that's what's important!" (S. Sprotte)

Rewards

 * In 2003, Sprott was awarded honorary citizenship of the City of Potsdam.
 * Sprott became an Honorary Citizen of the Alta Badia Region, St. Maarten, Thurn, Italy, in 2003.
 * Honorary Member of the "International Academy of Letters, Arts and Sciences", Rome
 * Honorary Member of the Potsdam Cultural Association
 * Honorary member of the Association of Berlin Artists.

Exhibitions

 * "Seeing the world in color - a retrospective of Sigvard Sprotte - for the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth", exhibition of the Potsdam Museum and Landesmuseum Schleswig-Holstein art and cultural history (Schloss Gottorf) in the app Kloster Cismar, curated by Jutta Götzmann and Thomas Gadeke, Potsdam, 2013 — Kloster Cismar is a former Benedictine monastery in Cismar, community of Grömitz in Schleswig-Holstein , in summer it serves as a branch of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum for art exhibitions.
 * Sprotte - Cycles Dialoge / Cycles Dialoges, Museum Schloss Cappenberg, Selm-Cappenberg and Museum Ladin Ciastel de Tor, Saint Martin, Italy, 2003
 * "New arrivals and photographs from the Sölring Forining inventory", with Albert Aerebo, Andreas Dirks, Otto Eglau, K. K. Feddersen, K. P. Hansen, Hugo Koecke, Franz Korvan, Ingo Kühl, Walter Kuhnau, Dieter Röttger, Helen Varges, Magnus Weidemann e.g. Sylter Heimatmuseum, today Sylt Museum, Keitum/Sylt 2003.
 * Sigward Sprotte - Color Calligraphy, Shanghai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (1996) and Wuhan Art Museum (2011), China, etc.
 * State Museum of Fine Arts. A. S. Pushkin, Moscow, 1989
 * Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, 1988
 * Glienicke Palace, Berlin
 * Potsdam Museum - Art and History Forum, Potsdam
 * Wilhelm Morgner House Museum, Soest
 * Gustav Lübcke Museum, Hamm.

Literature

 * Siegvard Sprotte Foundation / Nikolai Verlag: "Bornstedter's Dialogue: Art is Language", Berlin, 1997 (with the participation of S. Sprotte, Adolf Anselm Schurr, Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn, Bernd Gruber and Jörg Johansen-Reichert)
 * Siegward Sprotte Foundation / Breklumer Verlag: Bornstedter Dialogue: Color - Form - Communication, Breklum 1999 (featuring Ernst-Günther Hoppe/Alan Busch, Angelika Schimz and Nikolaus Hewecker) * Ulrich Schulte-Wulver: Siegvard's Sprat. In: Artist Island Sylt, pp. 314-315, Boyens, Heide 2005, ISBN 3-8042-1171-2.
 * Siegward Sprotte — In Dialogue with Karl Hagemeister, exhibition catalog of the Museum of the Artists' Colony of Havelland, Ferch, 2010.
 * Robert Thoms: "Sigvard Sprotte". In: "The Great German Art Exhibition in Munich, 1937-1944". List of artists in two volumes, volume I: Artists and graphic artists. Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8.
 * Siegward Sprotte - Colored Calligraphy (German-English-Portuguese), with an introduction by Silvia Chico and contributions by S. Sprott, Herbert Ried and Wolfgang Stockmayer, Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 1988 (exhibition at the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon) .), ISBN 3-7774-4730-7
 * Dialogue of Cycles, Kettler, 2003, ISBN 3-935019-87-4.
 * "Folder with graphics, farewell to the painting, Domberger Stuttgart".
 * Seeing the World in Color, Kettler 2013, ISBN 978-3-86206-236-2

Web Links

 * gallery in Kampen am Sylt
 * Siegward Sprotte Potsdam Foundation
 * Siegward Sprott in dialogue with Karl Hagemeister
 * Siegward Sprotte on artnet
 * Digital 3D Gallery Galerie Falkenstern Fine Art
 * Digital 3D Gallery Galerie Falkenstern Fine Art