Brad Pitt’s artist ‘friend’ Saul Fletcher found dead at 52 after apparent murder-suicide in Berlin
Brad Pitt’s ‘friend’ Saul Fletcher is dead at 52 after allegedly killing the mother of his daughter, according to German newspaper Blick.
The English artist/photographer was found dead by an apparent suicide after his daughter contacted Berlin authorities Wednesday evening to tell them her father had confessed to the murder of the 53-year-old woman.
Fletcher and American actor Pitt, 56, were seen together at the 2019 Venice Biennale art exhibition. DailyMail.com has reached out to Pitt’s camp for comment.
Crime: Brad Pitt’s artist ‘friend’ Saul Fletcher (above in May 2019 with the actor) has been fund dead after an apparent murder/suicide
Fletcher’s daughter made her report around 11:15pm on Wednesday according to reports.
After, police went to his apartment where they found a woman dead from what appeared to be stab wounds.
Fletcher was not at the apartment but had fled in his Porsche 911, according to reports.
He was found dead early Thursday around 3AM at a garden plot he owned near Rochowsee lake.
Alleged murder: The English artist/photographer was found in his Berlin apartment after his daughter contacted Berlin authorities Wednesday evening to tell them her father had confessed to killing her mother, 53
Dark: A self-taught photographer, Fletcher had been working in Berlin for two decades. He was world-renowned for his dark photo collages and primal mixed-media work
A self-taught photographer, Fletcher had been working in Berlin for two decades. He was world-renowned for his dark photo collages and primal mixed-media work.
‘I use whatever I have to hand, trying to create something, trying to make something good out of something bad,’ Fletcher told the Financial Times in 2018.
According to a bio on ArtSpace his work has been exhibited at London’s Courtaud Gallery, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Hessel Museum of Art in Annandale-on-Hudson, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, MUMOK in Vienna, Tate Modern in London, and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, among others.
His last exhibition, titled Four Loom Weaver, was at Anton Kern Gallery in New York in fall of 2018.