4 Jahreszeiten – Claudia Schiffer

Material

C-Print, each 102 x 102 cm

Dating

1991

About the artist

Swiss citizen by choice and of German origin the artist was known throughout his life for his extravagant life-style which earned him the reputation of a ‘gentleman-playboy’. This is why his successful career as an athlete, art collector and documentary filmmaker, and most of all as photographer often falls into oblivion.
Since 1972 Sachs photographed professionally, won a number of prices and made a name for himself with remarkable nude photographs for the French Vogue. The focus of his photography is on surreal nude and landscape representation, and Sachs also devoted himself early to digital photography, introducing the novelty as early as 1995 in a number of exhibitions. Thanks to his contacts to painters and sculptors such as Jean Fautrier, Andy Warhol, César, Arman, Yves Klein, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann and Allen Jones, Sachs began to build up a contemporary art collection as a young man. Many artists also participated in the legendary designing of the Pop Art apartment located in the tower of the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz in 1969, a place that received lasting attention by the art world.