Herbert Johannes Josef Siebner, Bio
b.1925, Stettin Prussia (Now Germany)
PUBLICATIONS
Patricia E. Bovey. 1996. A Passion for Art: the Art and Dynamics of the Limners. Sono Nis Press, Victoria, British Colombia.
Creative Canada (Volume I). Who’s who in International Art. Who’s who in American Art.
Anthony Emery. 1958. Canadian Art, Spring. The Art of Herbert Siebner.
International Register of Profiles. Men of Achievement (Vol. 6). International Directory of Arts. Marquis: Who’s who in the West.
Dictionary of International Biography, Canadian who’s who. American Biographical Institute.
Herbert Siebner. 1974. Twelve Graphics. The Malahat Review, 31, July.
Herbert Siebner and Robin Skelton. 1967. Inscriptions.
Herbert Siebner and Robin Skelton. 1972. Muse book.
Herbert Siebner. 1970. Color Line and Form. Publishing House, Sidney, B.C.
Herbert Siebner and Robin Skelton. 1993. Herbert Siebner, RCA: A Celebration.
Robin Skelton. 1979. Herbert Siebner: A monograph. Sono Nis Press, Victoria, British Columbia.
Nicolas Tuele. 1984, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Dualities.
Don’t (Film). with Karl Spreitz
TV Victoria, B.C., H. Siebner: Artist After 70
AWARDS
1952 Olympic Committee Design, Berlin, Germany
1953 Heraldic Design Award, City of Berlin
1956 Reid Award for Graphics, Canadian Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Toronto
1957 B.C. sculpture award
1957 Seattle Art Museum
1959 Award for painting, Winnipeg Art Gallery
1960 Purchase award, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1961 Award for painting, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1961 Honorable Mention, Northwest Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
1962 Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship
1973 Honorary Citizenship of Victoria, BC
MEMBER
1950 Berufsverband Bildender Kuenstler, Berlin, Germany
1958 Canadian Group of Painters
1973 Royal Canadian Academy
MURALS
The University of Victoria, BC
The Crown House, Victoria, BC
The Provincial Museum, Victoria, BC
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1950 Gallery Der Teekessel, Berlin Germany.
1954 Gallery Gerd Rosen, Berlin Germany.
1954 Norfolk Gallery, Victoria, BC
1955 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1956 Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
1957 Seligman Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
1958 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1958 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1958 New Design Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1959 Simone Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1959 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1960 Seligman Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
1960 College of Education, Bellingham, Tennessee, USA
1960 Simone Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1961 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1961 Seligman Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
1961 University of British Colombia, Vancouver, BC
1961 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1961 Gallery 8, Sanata Barbara,
1962 The Point Group, Victoria, BC
1962 Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
1963 The Hilton Gallery of the Senate of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
1963 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1964 Seligman Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
1964 Simone Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1964 New Design Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
1965 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec
1965 Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, PEI
1966 Pandoras Box Gallery, Victoria, BC
1966 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1967 Pandoras Box Gallery, Victoria, BC
1967 Blue Barn Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1967 Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1967 Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, Washington, BC
1968 Print Gallery, Victoria, BC
1968 Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1969 Print Gallery, Victoria, BC
1970 Retrospective Exhibition, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1970 Gallery 1, Argritoglio, Milan
1970 Print Gallery, Victoria, BC
1970 Victoria Art Gallery, Retrospective Show
1971 Gallery Schubert, Lugano
1971 Gallery Schubert, Milan
1971 Print Gallery, Victoria, BC
1973 The Provincial Archives, British Colombia
1973 Emily Walter Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1974 Bau-Xi Gallery, Victoria, BC
1976 Windsor Utley Gallery, Victoria, BC
1979 University of Victoria
1980 Media Centre, Vancouver, BC
1983 Eroscape at the Backroom Gallery, Victoria, BC
1984 Dualities at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 30 years in Canada, Victoria, BC
1986 Retrospective Exhibition, The City of West Berlin.
1989 Before Canada, Vancouver, B.C., Victoria, BC
1991 H. S. Museum of Expressionism
1991 Four Decades of Art, Calgary, AB
1992 Trends of Expressionism, Weisenstein Gallery, Victoria, BC
1993 Atelier Gallery, Victoria, BC
1993 Wincherster Gallery, Victoria, BC
1994 40 Years in B.C., Victoria, BC
1995 Siebner at 70 in B.C., retrospective exhibition, Victoria - Fort St. John.
1996 After 150 One-Man-Exhibitions, Stettin/Pomerania
2004 Celebration, Wallace Galleries Ltd, Calgary, AB
2004 Retrospect, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC
2004 Siebner, Winchester Gallery, Victoria, BC
2010 Siebner, Winchester Gallery, Victoria, BC
2012 Elements of Surprise, Winchester Gallery, Victoria, BC
2013 Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1949 Freunde Der Bildenden Kunst, Berlin, Germany
1953 Junge Kuenstler, Relingerahausen; Kunst im Tiergarten, Germany
1953 Kunst im Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
1958 Ruthermore Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1956 Canadian Group of Painters
1956 Quarterly group show: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1956 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1957 Northwest Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1957 Brussels World Fair
1958 Two Man Show with Tony Onley; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1958 International Exhibition, Graphics, Lugano
1959 West Coast Painters, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1959 Ontario Society of Artists
1959 Yugoslavia
1959 Canadian Biennial exhibition
1960 Western Painters, Stratford Festival, Stratford, ON
1960 The Canadian Group of Painters
1960 Ontario Society of Artists, ON
1960 British Colombia Society of Artists, Vancouver, BC
1960 The Point Group, Victoria, BC
1960 British Comobia Painters, San Francisco, CA
1961 Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, BC
1961 Two Man Show: with Elza Mayhew, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, BC
1961 The Canadian Group of Painters
1961 Ontario Society of Artists
1961 The Point Group, Victoria, BC
1961 British Colombia Society of Artists
1962 The Point Group, Victoria, BC
1962 Canadian Bienniale Exhibition
1962 Seattle World Fair, Seattle, WA
1965 Canadian Group of Painters
1965 British Colombia Society of Artists
1967 The Canadian Group of Painters
1967 British Colombia Society of Artists
1967 Albert White Gallery, Toronto, ON
1968 Two Man Show (with Maxwell Bates), Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
1972 The Limners, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1973 The Limners, Provincial Archives of British Colombia, Victoria, BC
1975 German Artists in Canada, the Goethe Institute of Montreal, Montreal, QC
1975 The Limners, Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, PEI
1975 Universite de Moncton, Moncton, NB
1975 New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, NB
1975 Memorial University Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
1975 University of New Brunswick Art Centre, Fredericton, NB
1977 Two Man Show (with Karl Spreitz), Windsor Utley Gallery, Victoria, BC
1977 The Limners, Shaw Remmington Gallery, Toronto, ON
1978 The Limners, Windsor Utley Gallery, Victoria, BC
PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS
1957 Brussels World’s Fair Exhibition
1958 Canadian Biennial, Ottawa, Ontario.
1958 International Graphic Exposition Luegano, Switzerland
1959 Graphic Exhibition, Lublijana, Yugoslavia.
1959 Canadian Biennial, Ottawa, Ontario.
1962 Seattle Worlds Fair Exposition
1962 Canadian Biennial, Ottawa, Ontario.
1966 Allied Arts Catalogue of the Royal institute of Canada
1969 International Triennale of Xilography, Capri, Italy
1969 Canadian Printmakers, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
1969 Northwest Printmakers, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
1972 Exposición Internacional de la Xilografia Contemporaranea, Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Nadrid (during 1971-72 this exhibition was also seen in Ciudad Real, Jaen, Baeza, Ubeda, Cordoba, Merida, Serilla, Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Algecira and Melilla).
1979 25 years in B.C. Exhibition, Maltwood Museum, University of Victoria
1980 Retrospective exhibition, Herbert Siebner, Media Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
1981 German-Canadian Symposium, University of Montreal, Quebec.
1982 Limner Exhibition, Edmonton, Alberta.
1989 Graphic-Biennal, Lubljana
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
1954-58 Open Studio for teaching art, Studio Group, Victoria, B.C.
1958-60 Instructor for painting and graphics, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1962 workshop in B.C.
1962 The University of B.C.
1963 Guest of Honour, Berlin Akedemie
Visiting Professor, The University of Washington
1964 Teaching Summer school, University of B.C.
1966 The University of Alberta
1967 The University of Victoria
1968 The University of Victoria
COLLECTIONS
The City of Berlin
The Seattle Art Museum
The Victoria Art Gallery
The City of Victoria
The University of Victoria
Edmonton Art Gallery
The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
The Confederation Art Museum, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s
The Kleinburg Museum
The City of Carpi. Museum of Xylographia
Vancouver Art Gallery
B.C. Provincial Collection
Princess Fernanda von Thurn and Taxis
Ocelot International Inc.
and numerous private collections worldwide.