Here's everything to know about Robert Redford's second wife, Sibylle Szaggars, who has been a visual artist for 40 years and has also worked in a warehouse.
Oscar-winning actor, Robert Redford passed away at the age of 89 and was known to be an environmental activist along with his wife, Sibylle Szaggars. Robert left for heavenly abode on September 16, 2025, at his house in Sundance, located in the mountains of Utah. It was the place Robert loved the most, surrounded by people he loved.
Robert's wife, Sibylle Szaggars, is deeply missing her husband, and Robert's family has requested privacy at this time. Sibylle was known as Sibylle Szaggars Redford after she got married to Robert. She is a German-born multimedia environmental artist whose artwork has been showcased in Monaco, Peru, Singapore, Japan, the US, and Suriname. Sibylle has also dedicated her work to Mother Nature.
Sibylle's work has consistently reflected her spiritual consciousness, focusing on creating awareness about environmental issues. She has always raised awareness related to the environment and activities that harm the environment. Her paintings have been inspired by ancient culture, nature. She had also used her array of paintings to make a stage play named, The Way Of The Rain.
It was on April 14, 1957, that Sibylle was born, and since her childhood, she displayed a lot of affection related to painting as well as sketching during her family trips to Malaysia, Europe, and Morocco. Reportedly, travelling helped Sibylle nurture her creativity as an artist, and she drew upon many of her travel experiences in her artwork. The mission of her artwork on the website of Sibylle reads:
"To create skill that transcends words, languages, cultures and politics. Szaggars Redford creates art in order to speak to a deeper universal consciousness that’s connected to and dependent on the earth and its environments."
Back in 2016, Sibylle became the recipient of the US Embassy in Paramaribo, Suriname, in the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies Program. The part of the program required her to go and visit the varied indigenous people of the country and also explore the rainforests. Reportedly, 10 of Sibylle's artwork pieces have been permanently displayed back in the U.S. Embassy in Paramaribo, Suriname. Her art medium interests have always included oil sketches, paintings, watercolours, and photography.
It was in the early 1980s that Sibylle began her career, relocating to London from Germany. She had rented a working warehouse situated in the Lower East Side of London and then transformed it into her first painting studio. She did share her space with the other artists who contributed to her work. She later started her group exhibitions in Germany as well as England, as in 1989 when Sibylle for the first time organised her group exhibition back at the Operettenhaus located in Hamburg. She has around 40 years of experience as a visual artist. Before starting her career as an artist, Sibylle spent 18 months in Paris, where she would paint and sketch on sidewalks and receive tips. Earlier, in an interview with Big Life Magazine, she shared:
"I learned that all these people had one thing in common. They respected nature and the environments they lived in, and they celebrated Earth within their ceremonial acts. I was more than aware that Western or 'modernized' cultures had moved away from paying attention to all of this."
It was in the late 1980s when Sibylle moved to the US and learnt a lot about the Native American culture along with the spiritual connections that was there. She incorporated it into the paintings, and then in 2015, she founded The Way Of The Rain, a non-profit organisation dedicated to developing, producing, and performing educational and artistic performances themed to promote public awareness and support the protection of our Earth.
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