Walter Eisler

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Walter Eisler (born September 15, 1954 in Leipzig as Walter Heisig ; † May 10, 2015 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Walter Eisler was the son of Bernhard Heisig and brother of Johannes Heisig . In view of the dominance of his father Bernhard Heisig, Walter Eisler took his mother's surname Brunhilde Eisler in the 1980s . Eisler initially began studying process engineering at the TH Merseburg , which he broke off. From 1976 to 1978 he worked in his father's studio. From 1978 to 1982 he studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig with his father and with Volker Stelzmann . After graduating, he worked on the monumental painting “ Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany ” by Werner Tübke in Bad Frankenhausen . Since 1984 he has been working as a freelance painter.

Study trips took him to Italy, England, Tunisia and several times to the USA.

Eisler lived and worked in Hamburg until the beginning of 2014, then in Leipzig.

Painting style

"Walter Eisler's works [...] are characterized by a special form of visual language based on the interplay of the individual elements, which, despite the real reference, is always explicit in his thematic pictures as well as in his city and industrial scenarios, landscapes or pictures of kings are emblematic. "

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1984: Young artists of the GDR (participation)
  • 1985/1986 Moscow / Berlin "Young Art USSR - GDR" (award winner)
  • 1988 Gallus Gallery, Frankfurt / Oder - solo exhibition
  • 1991 Schwind Gallery, Frankfurt / M.
  • 1994 America House, Leipzig
  • 2000 Galerie Berlin - "A family of painters" (with B. Heisig, J. Heisig, G. Brüne, Antoinette)
  • 2001 City Museum Düsseldorf - "The Royal Route"
  • 2003 Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf - "The King's Longing" (with G. Weber)
  • 2010 Seoul / Korea "German Artist Brothers: Walter Eisler & Johannes Heisig"

Publications

City of König Land, Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-932545-45-1

Awards

  • 1985/86 Moscow / Berlin "Young Art USSR - GDR" (award winner)
  • 1991 Progetto Civitella d'Agliano (Italy) - Scholarship from the Free State of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Eisler. In: die-galerie.com. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ Biography on the website of the Kunstverein Südsauerland  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.1 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kunstverein-suedsauerland.de  
  3. ↑ Press release on art-report.de
  4. ↑ Overview on Walter Eisler's website ( Memento from December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Walter Eisler on the website of Galerie kk ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.galerie-kk.de
personal data
SURNAME Eisler, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heisig, Walter (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2015
Place of death Leipzig