Wilfred satty biography of christopher columbus

Wilfried (Wilfred) Podriech, known as Sätty was born in Bremen, Germany, on April 12, As a child he played in the surreal world of the ruins of the city, which was heavily bombed during World War II. After three years of apprenticeship in mechanical engineering, he worked in Brasilia, moving to San Francisco, California in

In San Francisco he lived in North Beach, and associated with artists and bohemians of the Beat Generation.

In , inspired by the openness and creativity of San Francisco’s emergent Hippie and psychedelic culture, he began making pictorial collages. Some of these were sold as poster size prints, which were then very popular. He intended his art to engage the imagination and counteract the pernicious stimulus-response programming of media advertising.

Renting a studio at /43 Powell Street in San Francisco he created “The North Beach U-Boat”, what the late SF Chronicle art critic Thomas Albright described as:

"a surreal en