Erich Kissing

Erich Kissing ( born September 27, 1943 in Leipzig ) is a German painter. He lives and works in Leipzig.

Life

Kissing Erich and his twin sister Anneliese, and born in 1937 older brother Wolfgang grew up in Leipzig. The father worked as a plumber, heaters and in similar professions, the mother was a housewife. Kissing lives and works to this day, built in 1935 home in Leipzig- Knautkleeberg.

In elementary school teacher recognized his talent and character Kissings enabled him private lessons. From 1960 to 1962 Erich Kissing completed an apprenticeship as Offsetretuscheur in Meissner & Buch in Leipzig. In addition, he attended from 1961 to 1964 courses at the evening Academy of Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, where Rolf Kuhrt, Walter coin and Karl Krug were his teachers. Encouraged by Rolf Kuhrt, he applied in 1964 to study at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. He passed the entrance examination in 1965 and took on the study. The basic study from 1965 to 1967 at Tübke and Hans Mayer- Foreyt followed until 1970 an in-depth study of applied graphics with Wolfgang Matt Heuer and Gerhard Brose, and graduated with a diploma. Over the years, enterprising Kissing numerous study trips to Rügen, Hungary, Romania and the Caucasus.

Since 1970 Kissing works as a freelance artist in Leipzig- Knautkleeberg. To ensure his livelihood, he was between 1995 and 1997 as a scene painter in the theater workshops of the Opera Leipzig.

Work

1968 Kissing began with the calendrical cycle of paintings ( 13 paintings ) " The Theory of Flight ," which he in 1976 with the painting " On the beach " graduated. In 1971 he took over the almost ten years of work on the great friendship image of his generation " Leipzig by the sea " on one of the few group photos Leipzig artists. On his trips to the Baltic Sea and in the Romanian Carpathians many landscape drawings, which constitute a counterweight to the large-scale figurative oil paintings emerged. That they are to be regarded as independent works and not as preliminary studies, testified in 1980, the resulting sequence of large-scale drawings with the motif of the Baltic Sea coast. In 1979, he began the series of " animate meadows " - mythological fantasy paintings to the issue of human and mythical creatures. From 1980 to 1982 he worked on the painting " design for a monument ." Until 1984, the monumental fantasy motifs dominated his oeuvre, while determining between 1985 and 1987 portraits and landscapes. In 1988, Kissing with tungsten Ebersbach and Dietrich Wenceslas the mural on the subject of flying at a gym in Chemnitz. The design for the 6 x 22 m large image comes from Erich Kissing.

When his most important work group applies a cycle of large-scale Kentaurenbilder incurred since 1997 and are still ongoing. Previously Kissing had taken up the subject of the centaur already in a small format paintings entitled " Feral plantation " in 1993/94. In many of these Kentaurenbilder the painter is to see itself in the role of the mixing system. As models he also served repeatedly artist friends such as tungsten Ebersbach in the " Tournament " from 1998 to 2000.

"All Random, debauched narrative and detail -obsessed resigns in favor of plastic austerity and scarcity of shape without also give the impression of natural truth and living only to some extent. "

This impression of the severity of form is enhanced by the fine painting style of the artist. By applying the thin oil glazes with a fine brush created on the painting surface ' vibrant light - and color values ​​. "

Kissing learned from Tübke the technique of the old masters glaze. Here are carved out with a black and white underpainting in egg tempera, the shapes of the image. To win the paintings in numerous thin glazes of oil paint color, depth and plasticity.

The entire work Erich Kissings currently comprises 55 paintings.

Exhibitions

  • Frankfurt am Main, Gallery Schwind, Erich Kissing, 2012
  • Bad Frankenhausen, Erich Kissing - Myth longing, 2010
  • Vienna, MUMOK, Gender Check, November 13, 2009 - February 14, 2010 ( participation)
  • Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts, 60/40/20. Art in Leipzig since 1949, 4th October 2009 - January 10, 2010 ( participation)
  • Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts, heads or tails. Leipzig faces and stories 1858-2008, 2008/ 09 ( participation)
  • Leipzig New Town Hall ( Lower Foyer ), Cityscapes Leipzig. Paintings, drawings, prints, video works, 1998 ( participation)
  • Nuremberg, Germanic National Museum, lust and load. Leipzig art since 1945, then in Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts and School of Visual Arts, 1997 ( participation)
  • Dresden, locks, time - look. Art landscape in Saxony, 1994 ( participation)
  • Leipzig-Halle, Airport, The Theory of Flight, 1992
  • Altenburg, Lindenau - Museum, Cîmpu lui Neag. Erich Kissing, photographs and drawings, 1990
  • Dresden, Albertinum, X. art exhibition of the GDR, 1987/88 ( participation)
  • Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts, Study Hall of the graphic collections, 1973 ( first personal exhibition )
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