Erwin Eisch

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Erwin Eisch at a demonstration in 2008

Erwin Eisch ( born April 18, 1927 in Frauenau , Bavarian Forest ; † January 25, 2022 in Zwiesel ) was a German glass artist and painter.

Since the 1960s, Erwin Eisch has been considered the founder of the international studio glass movement with Harvey Littleton , and one of the first artists to use glass as a medium of artistic expression. Most recently, his artistic focus was painting .

Life

Buddha, 1988

Erwin Eisch was the eldest of six children of the musician and glass engraver Valentin Eisch and his future wife Therese Hirtreiter. After the Second World War, Valentin Eisch founded his own glassworks in Frauenau.

After training as a glass engraver in his father's workshop from 1946 to 1949, he studied glass design, sculpture and interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich until 1952 . In 1952 he returned to Frauenau, built a 3 -port furnace with his family and had his first contacts with liquid glass. From 1956 to 1959 he continued his studies in sculpture and painting in Munich.

During this time he was a founding member of the artists' group SPUR from 1957 to 1959. In 1960, together with his later wife Gretel Stadler and Max Strack , he organized the spin-off of the artists' group RADAMA .

In 1962 Harvey Littleton visited Frauenau, which gave Eisch his first contact with the American studio glass movement . In 1964 he received an invitation to the 1st World Crafts Council in New York City and to the 1st Glass Seminar with Harvey Littleton at the University of Wisconsin . In 1965 he founded his own glass studio in Frauenau. In the 1980s, Erwin Eisch organized the International Glass Symposium in Frauenau three times.

In 1988 he founded the “Bild-Werk Frauenau” together with others. He had been married to the sculptor Gretel Stadler since 1962. The marriage produced five children.

Erwin Eisch played a key role in the concept and opening of the Glass Museum in Frauenau in 1975. It is thanks to his friendship with the Stuttgart art historian Wolfgang Kermer that his glass collection was donated to the museum in 1982. Due to disputes about exceeding the planned construction costs of 1.4 million euros for a new museum building, he returned the certificate of honorary citizenship that he had been awarded in 2007 to the municipality of Frauenau in the spring of 2009.

teaching assignments

  • From 1964 various guest professorships in the USA and Europe
  • From 1988 he taught at the summer academy in Frauenau

awards

  • 1977 Honorary Award, Coburg Glass Prize
  • 1982 Honorary Membership GAS
  • 1985 1st prize Coburg Glass Prize
  • 1987 East Bavaria Culture Prize
  • 1992 Crystal Night Project, Gold Award for "My love to Anne Frank", American Interfaith Institute Philadelphia
  • 1995 Lifetime Achievement Award GAS
  • 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2021 Bavarian Culture Prize

exhibitions, selection

From 1959 to 2005, Erwin Eisch was represented in over 150 exhibitions in Germany, Europe, North America and Japan.

literature

  • Glass art from the 1960s and 1970s – 65 objects by 65 artists: Wolfgang Kermer Collection . Exhibition catalog Glass Museum Frauenau, December 1976 to November 1977, ed. from the municipality of Frauenau 1976 (Text: Alfons Hannes).
  • France Kermer : Erwin Eisch, the pioneer of studio glass in Germany . In: La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, no. 42, September/October 1988, pp. 36-41.
  • Alfons Hannes (with contributions by Wolfgang Kermer and Erwin Eisch): The Wolfgang Kermer Collection, Glass Museum Frauenau: Glass of the 20th Century; 50's to 70's . Schnell & Steiner, Munich, Zurich 1989 (= Bavarian Museums, Volume 9) ISBN 3-7954-0753-2 , pp. 19-27 with color ill.
  • Martin Ortmeier : The Chapel on the Zell – Modern World Architecture in the Bavarian Forest . In: Passauer Kunst Blatter 39, 1/2007, pp. 4-9, ISSN 1865-4525
  • Uta Spies (ed.): Erwin Eisch. Heaven begins on the ground . Passau 2007, Dietmar Klinger Verlag, ISBN 978-3-932949-63-0
  • Katharina Eisch-Angus, Ines Kohl, Karin Schrott (eds.): Erwin Eisch. "Clouds have always been my last stop." glass and pictures. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2012 ISBN 978-3-7774-5381-1
  • Joan Falconer Byrd: Harvey K. Littleton: A Life in Glass: Founder of America's Studio Glass Movement . Skira Rizzoli, New York 2012 ISBN 978-0-8478-3818-9

web links

itemizations

  1. ↑ Raimund Meisenberger: Renowned worldwide: glass artist and painter Erwin Eisch is dead. Retrieved on January 25, 2022 .
  2. ↑ Overview - Erwin Eisch - Artist's life and art of living ( Memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Eisch, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and glass artist
BIRTH DATE April 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenau , Bavarian Forest
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Zwiesel , Bavarian Forest