« Thank you. I’m fine. I was always lucky in life » – DiePresse.com
John Sailer, founder of the Vienna Gallery Ulysses, died in Vienna at the age of 87 in Vienna. He fought for his professional life for art and against market fashions.
John Sailer hadn’t been able to go for a long time. But he visited unexpected exhibition openings, theater performances, met friends. The steps from the lift to the front door seemed to be almost insurmountable hurdles. Yes, tedious, no question, but please no mining emotions! It was not I cheered him on, but he did me: « Thank you, I’m fine, » he also said on my last visit.
On his desk, books, slip mountains, magazines, photographs, he put on and revised the memories of his adventurous life every day. « I’m fine because I was always lucky in my life. »
A brave Swiss escape assistant smuggled Baby John to his parents in Paris. Mother Erna was Jew, Father Karl Hans functional with the radical socialists, both persecuted by the Nazis. With the Nea Hellas, the last refugee ship, the family was able to emigrate to New York. After the war, the Sailers returned to Vienna, John was nine. And obviously often in the right place at the right time. Or, as he would say: lucky!
