The Austrian photographer, collage artist and watercolorist Gottfried Salzmann (* 1943 in Saalfelden) was already enthusiastic about art as a child; a facsimile of Dürer's "Feldhase" adorned his nursery door.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with o. a. Sergius Pauser and Max Melcher and at the Ècole nationale supérieure des beaux arts in Paris.
Inspired especially by William Turner, Salzmann initially painted primarily depictions of natural landscapes, which were shown in his first exhibitions in Linz, Paris and Salzburg in 1968/69.
From 1970 on, Salzmann began to work with photography, and in 1978 there was a first photo exhibition in Saint Germain-en-Laye.
Influenced by his first visit to New York in 1983, Salzmann from then on devoted himself to depicting metropolises from various perspectives - but mostly from a bird's eye view. In doing so, he does not show the inhabitants but purely abstract, urban building fabric.
Salzmann lives and works in Paris and Vence.
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