Stefan Beltzig is a German painter and visual artist. Born in Bavaria as the son of a Berlin film maker and dealer in Oriental Antiquities, Beltzig attempted at first to turn his back on the artistic milieu in which he was raised, dropped out of school and joined a circus troupe as an acrobat. After leading the life of a vagabond, which enabled him to travel in India and the Near East, he began to study art. From 1963 to 1964 he worked at Shiraz and Isfahan in Iran where he took up ceramics and sculpture. After a formal study of art and graduation from the Academy of Art in Munich with First Prize in painting in 1973, he began to emphasize realism and trompe l'oeil- effects in his works. From 1979 on, his attention turned solely to drawing. Stefan Beltzig seems to be drawn to environments in transition. His work often depicts surroundings that are poised momentarily, yet hint of their transience. Such is the case with his earlier still lifes in which the memorialized detritus of daily consumption also speaks of its impermanence.
Stefan Beltzig
Studios
New Hampshire
Stefan Beltzig worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…