Born in Bavaria in 1944, the son of a Berlin film maker and a dealer of Oriental Antiquities, Stefan Beltzig attempted at first to turn his back on theartistic milieu in which he was raised, dropped out of school and joined a circustroop as an acrobat. After leading the life of a vagabond, which enabled him totravel 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 in arts and graduating 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. Stefan Beltzig seems to be drawn to environments in transition. His work often depicts surroundings which are poised momentarily, yet hint of their transience.
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