Ernst Eichinger

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Ernst Franz Karl Max Eichinger (born May 27, 1929 in Würzburg , † February 17, 2015 in Limburg an der Lahn ) was a German artist . He dealt with painting , drawing , assemblage , construction art , illustration , book design , layout and poster .

Live and act

Ernst Eichinger spent his childhood in Scheinfeld and Weiden as the son of Karl Eichinger, who later became the district court director of Ansbach . He spent his high school in Ansbach , where he graduated from high school Carolinum in 1948 . He then studied philology at the Universities of Bamberg and Regensburg. From 1950 to 1955 he was enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Professor Franz Nagel , where he graduated with a diploma. After exclusively freelance work until then, he was a full-time lecturer in fine arts at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, professor Hans Daucher .

While Ernst Eichinger's early drawings reveal echoes of the work of George Grosz , without losing their independent style, his painting at the time seems to have been influenced by Pablo Picasso . Eichinger sought to be close to the stage, made friends with the young Marcel Marceau by drawing and got to know the Falckenberg student at the time, Mario Adorf and Curd Jürgens . Extensive study trips took the artist to Italy in the early 1950s, particularly to Sicily, but also to the Balkans, Spain and France. In the 1950s Ernst Eichinger lived with artist colleagues (e.g. Herbert Kreil and Petrus Schloemp ) in the apartment belonging to the legendary " Schwabinger Gisela " on Occamstrasse in Schwabing.

Since 1955, Ernst Eichinger exhibited regularly as a juried participant until 2011, the end of this exhibition, in the “Great Art Exhibition Munich” in the Haus der Kunst . His often large-format pictures cannot be assigned and often change subject and technical execution. Eichinger dealt intensively with the subject of "table" and "space" using various techniques, and over the decades worked on various forms of typeface, architecture and landscape representations. Due to its variability in presentation and implementation, Eichinger was able to successfully submit thematically related exhibitions.

Eichinger had been a member of the Munich Secession since 1958 . He was an active member of the board for a long time and has been the first honorary member since 2013.

In 1959 he married Viola Turba, and in 1961 his son Sebastian was born.

Ernst Eichinger lived and worked in Munich since 1950 and in Limburg an der Lahn since 2014, where he died on February 17, 2015 and was buried in the main cemetery.

Awards (selection)

  • 1964: Water lily prize and scholarship from the city of Munich
  • 1964: Inclusion in GRAPHIS No., 113 (Germany), international graphic magazine, Zurich
  • 1968: Prize of the Free State of Bavaria for painting and drawing
  • 1971: Medal of the illustrator competition of the Leipzig International Book Art Exhibition
  • 1972: First prize in a wall design competition for the Munich subway
  • 1991: Prize of the district of Dillingen

Literature (selection)

  • Large art exhibition in Munich; Exhibition catalogs 1955–2011
  • Painter of the Munich art scene 1955–1982 - Kiessling Hans; A documentation by 88 painters with 440 plates and short biographies; ISBN 3880961751 (EOS Verlag)
  • Encounter with painters - Kiessling Hans; Munich art scene 1955–1980; ISBN 388096081X (EOS Verlag)
  • Werner Simon (Ed.): Street. Everyday life, politics, art, street theater. Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-459-00780-X .
  • Hans Daucher: The great drawing school. Tosa, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85492-655-3 .
  • Susanna Partsch : Eichinger, Ernst . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 506.
  • Eichinger, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 451 .
  • Kunstverein Rosenheim - annual exhibition / Kunstverein Rosenheim, annual exhibition 2005: Special exhibition Ákos Birkás paperback - June 1, 2005 by Kunstverein Rosenheim (editor), Hannah Stegmayer (author), Iris Truebswetter (author, consultant editor), Ákos Birkás (cover design), Simone Schroeder (designer), Siegfried Hobohm (photographer) self-published (2005)
  • Kunstverein Rosenheim - annual exhibition / Kunstverein Rosenheim, annual exhibition 2006: Special exhibition Franz Wassermann paperback - April 1, 2006 by Kunstverein Rosenheim (editor), Iris Truebswetter (author), Hannah Stegmayer (author, foreword), Simone Schroeder (designer) ISBN 3-939446 -00-9
  • Kürschner's Handbook of Visual Artists: Germany, Austria ..., Volume 2, p. 1371; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2007

Web links

Virtual exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Susanna Partsch: Eichinger, Ernst . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 506.
  2. ↑ munich secession ::. Honorary members. In: muenchenersecession.de. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Obituary. (JPG; 87 kB) In: anzeigen.rheinmainmedia.de. Archived from the original on August 24, 2015 ; accessed on January 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ City of Wertingen - Art. In: Wertingen.de. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Eichinger, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichinger, Ernst Franz Karl Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 2015
Place of death Limburg on the Lahn