Hans-Ruprecht Leiß

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The artist Hans-Ruprecht Leiß 2017 at work on his solo exhibition Drawn Worlds in the main building of the Deutsche Bank in Hanover

Hans-Ruprecht Leiß (born April 29, 1954 in Husum ) is a north German draftsman and painter . He lives and works in Flensburg .

Life

Hans-Ruprecht Leiß, Lobster Tree (etching)

Hans-Ruprecht Leiß attended the Hermann-Tast-Gymnasium in Husum and graduated with the Abitur in 1975. In 1977 he went to the University of Education in Flensburg to study art education. In 1981 and 1985 he passed the necessary exams, but it quickly became clear to Leiß that the teaching profession could only be a stopover for him. In 1985 he said goodbye to his teaching post and his secure existence to become a freelance artist with a studio in Flensburg.

He became a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists and in the following years created an extensive graphic, painterly and drawing work. His subjects are the sea and its inhabitants. He himself always says that he has spent his whole life with both legs in salt water, and wants to emphasize his strong affinity for the sea and the people by the sea. He often implements the images in the style of fantastic realism.

The collaboration with Falko Behrendt and Otto Beckmann began in 1992, resulting in joint exhibitions, folders, catalogs and calendars.

Hans-Ruprecht Leiß is represented with his own works in many public and private collections. He has numerous solo and group exhibitions between Flensburg, Helsinki , Frankfurt am Main and New York .

He became better known to a national public in 2005 through his poster design for Pope's visit by Benedict XVI. in Cologne (title: habemus papam).

In 2008 he paraphrased 30 lithographs for Feridun Zaimoglu's new version of the fairy tale Vom Fischer and his wife , which was published as a bibliophile book edition.

In 2014 designed Leiß for the rehabilitation of Flensburg St. Jürgen Church a puzzle on which the Church is shown. The copies were sold at a parish summer festival in August.

In December 2014 the Schleswig City Museum showed an anniversary exhibition for the 60th birthday of Hans-Ruprecht Leiß with a cross-section of his life's work.

In the summer of 2016, Leiß supported the efforts of the Flensburg Rotarians to restore this ship with a color etching of the historic saloon steamer Alexandra .

Awards

literature

  • Uwe Herms, In the land between the seas - trips to the unknown Schleswig-Holstein , with a foreword by Siegfried Lenz and pictures by Hans-Ruprecht Leiß, Rasch and Röhring Verlag, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-89136-602-7
  • Hans-Ruprecht Leiß, Dierk Strohmann: The hamburg saga . Hamburger Abendblatt, Axel Springer Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-921305-79-9 .
  • Hans-Ruprecht Leiß: Nauta Navigat, log book of a visual journey . DSV-Verlag, ISBN 3-88412-341-6 .
  • Tender and game, delicious game recipes by Christian Bind with pictures by Hans-Ruprecht Leiß. DSV-Verlag, ISBN 3-88412-406-4
  • Freshly caught, small fish finesses by Christian Bind with pictures by Hans-Ruprecht Leiß, DSV-Verlag, ISBN 3-88412-405-6 .
  • Feder und Schnabel, Lively poultry specialties by Christian Bind with drawings by Hans-Ruprecht Leiß, DSV-Verlag, ISBN 3-88412-430-7 .
  • Jochen Missfeldt : The rapeseed king with pictures by Hans-Ruprecht Leiß. pictus verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-927212-52-0 .
  • Hans-Ruprecht Leiß: A mirror of the sea . Catalog for the exhibition in the Shipping Museum in Flensburg; with contributions by Jochen Missfeldt and Rainer Prüß, Flensburg 2006.
  • Hans-Ruprecht Leiß: En Vandering med farver og linjer… A walk in colors and lines… , printed on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark, 2010, ISBN 87-91252-38-5
  • Hans-Ruprecht Leiß: In the Bible on the move , 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-054622-8

Web links

Commons : Hans-Ruprecht Leiß  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger
  2. ↑ Website: edition eichthal
  3. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Art: A Leiß in Five Hundred Parts , from: August 19, 2014, accessed on: August 26, 2014
  4. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : St.-Jürgen-Gemeinde: Colorful celebration for the preservation of the church , from: August 25, 2014, accessed on: August 26, 2014
  5. ↑ Schlei-Bote: A lover of bizarre animal species, December 13, 2014 , accessed on November 11, 2016
  6. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt: "Alexandra" becomes a work of art, July 17, 2016 , accessed on November 11, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Leiß, Hans-Ruprecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum