Artist talk with Friedrich Schreiber (in German)

On the last day of his exhibition ‘en passant’, the artist Friedrich Schreiber talks to the director of the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus Jürgen Dehm about his artistic training in Romania, his flight to Germany in 1980 and his paintings of recent years.

Friedrich Schreiber (*1936 in Kronstadt/Brașov, RO, lives in Regensburg, DE) studied –  after training as an iron turner–  at the "Monumental Painting" department of the Bucharest Art Academy from 1957 to 1963. He then worked as an assistant and lecturer at the Faculty of Drawing at the University of Timisoara until it was closed in 1978. In 1980, he emigrated to Germany. The following year, he became a workshop leader and lecturer at the University of Regensburg, where he continued to teach for another ten years after his retirement in 1996. Since 1968, he has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at the "Helios" Gallery of the Artists' Fund in Timisoara (1968/1973), the Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg (1986), the Banat Museum in Timisoara (2010), the Museum of Highland Banat, Reșița. (2010), and the University of Regensburg (2013). In 1971, he was awarded the State Prize for Painting by the State Committee for Culture and Art in Romania.