Gerhard Kisser

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Gerhard Kisser

Gerhard Kisser (born October 2, 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian graphic designer, curator and founder of the Ensemble Gerersdorf open-air museum .

Career

Kisser was born in Vienna as the eldest son of a doctor. From 1957 to 1962 he received an apprenticeship as a graphic designer at the Höhere Graphische Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna, master class, with a diploma. From 1960 to 1961, Kisser took one semester as a guest student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (evening act with Herbert Böckl , graphics with G. Matejka-Felden ). 1962 followed a one-semester guest study at the art academy in Cairo. Kisser worked as a freelance commercial graphic artist from 1963 to 1995. In 1965 he started working as a freelancer in the working group for commercial graphics, the Atelier Gamma , Vienna's partner from 1969. From 1989 to 1995 he was the managing partner of the studio that was converted to Gamma GmbH with up to ten employees. After his takeover by Saatchi & Saatchi , he left the advertising industry and worked from 1996 to 2014 as curator of the art collections of the musical string producer and patron Peter Infeld in Vienna and organized numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.

As a 30-year-old, Kisser came to southern Burgenland for the first time looking for a weekend house. In 1972 the property with the last thatched house in Gerersdorf was purchased. In 1973 the first building was transferred to Gerersdorf. The private weekend domicile became the "Ensemble Gerersdorf". The ensemble, then consisting of six buildings, was presented to the public in 1976 with a first art exhibition. In the following decades it developed into the largest open-air museum in southern Burgenland and an important cultural center in the region. Gerhard Kisser has lived permanently in Gerersdorf since 2014, where he not only devotes himself to the museum, but also works as an artist.

Awards and honors

  • Recognition diploma for monument protection from the Ministry of Science and Research, 1974
  • Sponsorship award from the Burgenland Foundation Theodor Kery, 1990
  • Reinhold Polster Foundation Prize, 1992
  • Decoration of Honor of the Province of Burgenland , 2001
  • Ring of Honor of the Gerersdorf-Sulz community, 2001
  • Awarded the professional title of Professor for Cultural Mediation and Museum Education, 2007
  • Federal Medal of Honor , 2012
  • Art mediator 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Kisser: Event archive of the Infeld House of Culture. In: infeld.net. Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
  2. ^ Gerhard Kisser: The Infeld Collection and the Fantastic Realists. In: Greith House. Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
  3. ↑ 2011 INTERNATIONAL ART FROM THE INFELD COLLECTION. In: Globart. Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Picasso in Gerersdorf. In: mein district.at. Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
  5. ^ ORF Burgenland: Gerhard Kisser: Exhibition on the 70s. In: Burgenland Today. October 7, 2011, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  6. ↑ BM Schmied presents professor titles to Manfred Jochum, Ferdi Böhm-Besim, Karl Fröstl, Walter Graf, Irene Heise, Gerhard Kisser and Alfred Schiemer . BMUKK press releases. May 15, 2007. Archived from the original on December 28, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 23, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmbf.gv.at
  7. ↑ Federal Decoration of Honor 2012 for museum work . Federal Ministry for Education and Women. Archived from the original on December 28, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 23, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmbf.gv.at
  8. ↑ Federal Decoration of Honor 2012 for museum work. The excellent . Federal Ministry for Education and Women. Archived from the original on December 28, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 23, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmbf.gv.at
  9. ^ Art mediator 2012: Prof. Gerhard Kisser . kunstsammler.at. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Kisser, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian graphic designer, curator and founder of the Ensemble Gerersdorf open-air museum
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna