Emil Spiess (painter)

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Emil Spiess (born January 5, 1938 in Oberschruten , Lithuania ; † June 2009 in Klein Kreutz , Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German painter and visual artist .

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Emil Spiess was born in Lithuania in 1938. From 1957 to 1958 he attended the Dresden workers and farmers faculty for fine arts . He then studied until 1963 at the Dresden University of Fine Arts with Rudolf Bergander and Gerhard Bondzin . After graduating, Emil Spiess initially worked as a freelance artist in Brandenburg an der Havel for three years . In 1967 he was on the VI. German art exhibition represented in Dresden. From 1967 to 1971 he worked as an assistant for wall painting by Gerhard Bondzin at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. From 1966 to 1989 Emil Spiess was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . In 1976 he received the Theodor Fontane Prize of the Potsdam district . He worked as a painter for the International Peace Tour. In 1977 Spiess moved with his family to Klein Kreutz .

Emil Spiess was married to the artist Monika Spiess . His son Marc Spiess is a musician, Jan Spiess is also a painter.

Works

Three panels of the Brandenburg mosaic - an old and a new city at the Brandenburg Industrial Museum

Nine of the original fifteen panels of the approximately ten by fourteen meter large mosaic Brandenburg - an old and a new city , which was installed on a house wall near the Brandenburg main station until 2009 , were installed on the outer wall of the Brandenburg Industrial Museum in 2016 . The mosaic was made by Spiess in two phases in 1979 and 1981 in cooperation with VEB Housing Combine Brandenburg and attached to a five-story high - rise . The entire mosaic shows motifs of the city of Brandenburg, industrial workers and in its center a red-haired woman with a bouquet of flowers.

The Beeskow Art Archive and the Brandenburg City Museum own several pictures by the artist.

Emil Spiess worked on the mural The Path of the Red Flag on the west side of the Kulturpalast in Dresden under Gerhard Bondzin , which was created between 1968 and 1969 and has been designated as a cultural monument since 2001 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Emil Spiess . In the picture atlas Art in the GDR . Accessed December 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ Emil Spiess. In: Stattbekannt.de. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Brigitte Einbrodt: The most famous skewer picture shines at the museum . Published on November 6, 2016 in Märkische Allgemeine . Accessed December 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ Information panel Art in Architecture - The mural by the Brandenburg artist Emil Spiess , Brandenburg an der Havel Industrial Museum, viewed on December 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ press release . Accessed December 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Spiess, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberschruten , Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH June 2009
Place of death Klein Kreutz , Brandenburg on the Havel