Erich Kissing

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

Life

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

In elementary school, Kissing's drawing teacher recognized his talent and enabled him to take private lessons. From 1960 to 1962, Erich Kissing completed an apprenticeship as offset retoucher at the Meißner & Buch publishing house in Leipzig. In addition, from 1961 to 1964 he took courses at the evening academy of the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art , where Rolf Kuhrt , Walter Münze and Karl Krug were his teachers. Encouraged by Rolf Kuhrt, he applied in 1964 to study at the Leipzig University of Art and Graphics. He passed the entrance examination and began studying in 1965. Basic studies from 1965 to 1967 with Werner Tübke and Hans Mayer-Foreytfollowed by 1970 an in-depth study of applied graphics with Wolfgang Mattheuer and Gerhard Brose, which he completed with a diploma. Over the years, Kissing undertook numerous study trips to Rügen , Hungary , Romania and the Caucasus .

Kissing has been working as a freelance artist in Leipzig- Knautkleeberg since 1970 . To ensure his livelihood, he worked as a stage painter in the theater workshops of the Leipzig Opera between 1995 and 1997 .

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In 1968 Kissing began with the calendar painting cycle (13 paintings) "Vomfly", which he completed in 1976 with the painting "Am Strand". In 1971 he began working for almost ten years on the great friendship picture of his generation “Leipziger am Meer”, one of the few group pictures by Leipzig artists. During his travels to the Baltic Sea and the Romanian Carpathians , he created numerous landscape drawings that counterbalance the large-format figurative oil paintings. The series of large-format drawings with the motif of the Baltic Sea coast from 1980 attests to the fact that they should be viewed as independent works and not as preliminary studies. In 1979 he began the series of "Lively Meadows" - mythological fantasy paintings on the subject of people and mythical creatures .

From 1980 to 1982 he worked on the picture "Design for a Monument". Until 1984 the monumental fantasy motifs dominated his oeuvre , while between 1985 and 1987 portraits and landscapes were decisive. In 1988 Kissing, together with Wolfram Ebersbach and Dietrich Wenzel, created the mural on the subject of flying at a gym in Chemnitz. Erich Kissing designed the 6 × 22 m picture.

His most important group of works is a cycle of large-format centaur pictures that have been created since 1997 and have not yet been completed. Kissing had previously taken up the motif of the centaur in a small-format painting entitled "Wild Plantation" in 1993/94. In many of these centaur pictures the painter himself can be seen in the role of the hybrid. Artist friends, such as Wolfram Ebersbach in the picture “Tournament” from 1998 to 2000, also repeatedly served as models.

"Everything that is accidental, extravagantly narrative and obsessed with detail takes a back seat in favor of plastic severity and scarcity of form, without giving up the impression of what is natural and lively."

- Gerd Lindner

This impression of formal rigor is reinforced by the fine-grained painting style of the artist. Applying the thin oil glaze with a fine brush creates “vibrating light and color values” on the painting surface.

Kissing learned the technique of the old master's glaze from Werner Tübke . The shapes of the picture are modeled out with a black and white underpainting in egg tempera . The painting gains color, depth and plasticity in numerous thin glazes from oil paint.

Erich Kissing's work comprises 64 large-format paintings (as of 2018).

Exhibitions

  • Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Schwind, Erich Kissing, 2012
  • Bad Frankenhausen, Erich Kissing - The Myth of 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, October 4, 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 Wandelhalle), cityscapes of Leipzig. Painting, hand drawing, printmaking, video work, 1998 (participation)
  • Nuremberg, Germanic National Museum , pleasure and burden. Leipzig art since 1945, then in: Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts and University of Graphic and Book Art, 1997 (participation)
  • Dresden, castle, time - view. Art landscape in Saxony, 1994 (participation)
  • Leipzig-Halle, Airfield , About Flying, 1992
  • Altenburg, Lindenau Museum , Cimpu lui Neag. Erich Kissing, photographs and drawings, 1990
  • Dresden, Albertinum , Xth Art Exhibition of the GDR, 1987/88 (participation)
  • Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts, study room of the graphic collections, 1973 (first personal exhibition)

literature

  • Renate Hartleb : Painting by Erich Kissing. In: Sächsisches Tageblatt . (Leipzig). June 24, 1973.
  • Günter Meißner: Leipzig contemporary artists. Leipzig 1977, page 50, 229, fig. 63.
  • Anneliese Hübscher: E. Kissing - Draft for a memorial. In: Works from the 11th art exhibition in the Leipzig district in 1985.
  • Margit Mahn, Cimpu lui Neag: Introduction to Erich Kissing - photographs and drawings. Catalog for the exhibition in the State Lindenau Museum Altenburg 1990, Leipzig 1990.
  • Mr. Kissing enchants the sky (Airport Report). In: Bild (Leipzig) January 17, 1992.
  • Pictures of flying in the airport gallery. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. May 1, 1992.
  • Meinhard Michael: Erlkönig in the mountains. In: Leo. Leipzig city magazine. No. 5, July 1992, pp. 52/53.
  • Günter Meißner: Erich Kissing - About flying. Dresdner Bank Leipzig calendar 1991. Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • Günter Meißner: Erich Kissing. 51 ° 20'N12 ° 23'E or: The wonderful in reality. Dresdner Bank calendar 1993. Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Herwig Guratzsch, Reiner Behrends (ed.): Erich Kissing. Catalog for the personal exhibition August 25 - October 10, 1993 in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Foreword by Günter Meißner. Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig in conjunction with the Neuer Leipziger Kunstverein e. V.
  • Exhibition catalog on the occasion of the exhibition "Lust and Burden: Leipzig Art since 1945" in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg from May 15 - September 7, 1997, in the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig and Leipzig University of Graphics and Art from October 2 - December 31, 1997 .
  • Martin Grunwald (Ed.): Erich Kissing. Painting 1965–2004. Leipzig 2004 (with a contribution by Günter Meißner).
  • Exhibition catalog on the occasion of the exhibition "Erich Kissing - Mythos Sehnsucht" in the Panorama Museum Bad Frankenhausen 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Lindner (Ed.): Erich Kissing. The myth of longing. Catalog for the exhibition in the Panorama Museum Bad Frankenhausen 2010, pp. 147–153.
  2. ↑ Gerd Lindner: Praise of Beauty , in: Gerd Lindner (Ed.): Erich Kissing. The myth of longing. Catalog for the exhibition in the Panoramamuseum Bad Frankenhausen 2010, p. 5
  3. ^ A b Gerd Lindner: Praise of Beauty , in: Gerd Lindner (Ed.): Erich Kissing. The myth of longing. Catalog for the exhibition in the Panoramamuseum Bad Frankenhausen 2010, p. 6.
  4. ^ Günter Meißner, in: Martin Grundwald (Ed.): Erich Kissing. Paintings 1965–2004 , Leipzig 2004, p. 7
  5. ↑ Jörg Uwe Neumann, director of the Kunsthalle Rostock , on February 4, 2018 on Deutschlandfunk .
personal data
SURNAME Kissing, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig