Gerhard Riessbeck
Gerhard Rießbeck (born September 30, 1964 in Lichtenfels (Upper Franconia) ) is a German painter.
Career
His enthusiasm for Wagner operas resulted in the initial ambitions to become a set designer. The first paintings made use of pathetic, ironic set elements. But then Gerhard Rießbeck studied painting from 1987 to 1993 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Werner Knaupp . He was made a master student and worked as an assistant until 1999. In 1994 he spent four months in Iceland with a DAAD scholarship , a stay that sparked his enthusiasm for the high latitudes of the world. Since then, Rießbeck has been concerned with the cold deserts, and later also with the people who are in this area. Further trips have taken him to Greenland, Norway, Sweden, South America, the Sahara and Kamchatka. Rießbeck lives with his family in Bad Windsheim, Middle Franconia.
plant
Rießbeck never paints with the easel in nature. He does not paint realistic landscapes, but rather constructs landscape scenes in the studio. During his stays in nature, he documents this in sketches that later form the basis for the large studio pictures. Here Rießbeck behaves in a very similar way to his great role model Caspar David Friedrich . His picture, The Ice Sea, was the initial spark for dealing with the medium of ice and snow (quote: DAS picture for me ).
In the northern summer of 2001, Rießbeck accompanied an Arctic expedition of the Alfred Wegener Institute as an expedition painter on the ship Polarstern . In the southern summer of 2005 he repeated the expedition painting on an Antarctic expedition to the Weddell Sea . In a cycle of 77 pictures (oil on wood, 20 × 50 cm) he documented the course of the trip in an artistic way, supplemented by diary entries ( EISTAGE ). The documentation reflects the artist's impressions in the unique polar landscape - it does not deal with the scientific work. Later, in the studio, further pictures in large formats (up to 2 × 3 m) were created, in which the polar explorer is also the central focus.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2007: Ice Days , Kunstverein Aalen (March 11th - April 15th)
Prices
- 1992 Design of the gallery of the St. Elisabeth Church in Hohenberg / Eger (1st prize)
- 1999 Art Prize of the Nürnberger Nachrichten
- 2004 Special award from the publisher of Nürnberger Nachrichten
literature
- Gerhard Rießbeck, 41 days in the Greenland Sea , German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven, 2002
- Gerhard Rießbeck, EISTAGE - expedition painting in the Antarctic , 191 pages, 82 color images, Hauschild Verlag , Bremen, 2006, ISBN 3-89757-327-X
- Gerhard Rießbeck, The Researcher's Eye - Expedition Painting in the Arctic and Antarctic , Polar Research, 73 (2/3), 135–137, 2006, hdl: 10013 / epic.29919.d001 (pdf, 740 kB)
- Gerhard Rießbeck, The Researcher's Eye - Painting 2003-2008 , 64 pages, Hauschild Verlag, Bremen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89757-426-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Rießbeck in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.gerhardriessbeck.de - the artist's website
- Expedition painting at the Alfred Wegener Institute
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riessbeck, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lichtenfels (Upper Franconia) |