Ernst Grieg

Ernst Grieg (* 1919 in Gernsbach ; † 2005 in Bad Waldsee ) was a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

Short biography

Ernst Grieg was born in Gernsbach near Baden-Baden in 1919 .

Grieg completed his studies from 1950 to 1955.

From 1966 to 1989 he was registered in Konstanz. In 1969 he joined the local and national costume association Konstanz eV "Stamm 1927". In 1994 he was awarded the certificate of honor for 25 years of loyal work in the local and traditional costume association.

Grieg spent the last part of his life in Bad Waldsee and died in 2005.

Education and artistic activity

After the end of the war, Ernst Grieg began studying painter and graphic designer at the art college in Basel in 1950, which he graduated with a diploma in 1955.

After completing his studies, he started working in the Eidenbenz studio in Basel; at the same time he started to market himself. He soon opened his own studio in Basel for graphics, advertising, photography, exhibition design and design. With this studio he has already worked for well-known companies such as B. Hoffmann-La Roche .

In 1958 he received his first order from Hoffmann-La Roche . A 56-page catalog The Role of Vitamin E in Animal Nutrition , for which not only the design and graphics, but also photographs were made.

As a freelance artist, he worked in Munich , Stuttgart and Mannheim ; in Mannheim z. B. for CF Boehringer & Soehne GmbH .

As early as 1969 he began his artistic work for the Heimat- und Volkstrachtenverein Konstanz eV, which he continued into old age.

In 1977 he became a member of the Kunstverein Konstanz .

From 1983 Grieg began participating in the annual art exhibitions in Allensbach : 'The artistic work around the Untersee'.

Exhibitions z. B. in Bergdietikon , Konstanz , Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Pullach were made known to a large audience through accompanying newspaper articles.

Quote

"Especially nowadays, the artist is obliged to preserve and not destroy the existing healthy feelings in people for the colorful beauty of nature and the aesthetics"

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SURNAME	Grieg, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gernsbach
DATE OF DEATH	2005
Place of death	Bad Waldsee