Brita Seifert Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1963 -

Brita Seifert, German Fantastic/Surrealist painter, was born in Leipzig in 1963. started drawing in 1980, before she was admitted to the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, where she was a student of Prof. Heinz Wagner and Werner Hennig from 1983 to 1986. From 1988 – 1989 she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in East Berlin. At that time many turbulent surrealistic paintings were produced which contained images critical of the government at that time. She decided to express her unrest with the current social/governmental situation and put her caution aside and produced several exhibitions of her artwork. Her hope was to awake the people to bring about a change. The GDR ( Communist controlled German Democratic Republic) showed no tolerance and in October of 1989 She was told to leave the country or go to prison. She left the GDR, first to Teubingen in the south of Germany and then to Italy. In Italy she got inspired by the works of Leonardo Da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer. In 1992 she moved back to Berlin.