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Herbert Siebner
1925 - 2003

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	Face historical canadian 1970 Code B 8 x 8 x 7 (in) mixed media

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Herbert Siebner was a member of the Limners, a prominent group of Victoria-based artists. Herbert Siebner was born in 1925 to a cultured family in the north German city of Stettin, near the Baltic Sea. Though a most unlikely recruit; he was drafted into Hitler's army at the age of 17. He escaped, and ever after determined to survive. A student of the Expressionist painters in Berlin just after the Second World War, Herbert Siebner saw through bourgeois European life. He was as a vivid Modernist that he came in Victoria in 1954. Arriving penniless and without a working knowledge of English, Siebner (with his wife Hannelore) created a new art world around him in Victoria. Siebner refined his expression to the essence. As a young man he was able to sketch geography and architecture with panache. As his work evolved, he reduced the complexity of space to a simple horizon line. Above and below this line, the sky and the sea are indicated by his all purpose cobalt blue. The artist is conscious of his role in this drama. He is the Hero, a phallocrat confronting elemental powers. That's what Picasso and Jackson Pollack were playing at. Early on Siebner saw where civilization was leading and he opted out. He became a neo primitive. It is impossible to separate the artist's personality from his work. During his 50 years in Victoria, Siebner lived out his mythology, creating a persona considerably larger than life. He was aided in his mythmaking by many associates. Colin Graham, then director of the Victoria Art Gallery, gave him 10 solo shows there, the first within a year of his arrival. Robin Skelton, head of the Creative Writing Department at UVic and editor of the Malahat Review, was one of Siebner's closest allies. Fellow members of art groups The Point and The Limners were always ready to socialize. Dick Morriss of Morriss Printers saw that books about Siebner were well designed and available. The Victoria Times newspaper published dozens of sketches sent from Siebner's tours in B. C. and Europe which were sponsored by the Canada Council. He passed away in 2003. His art is found in numerous permanent collections around the world. A Canadian favourite.

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