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Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany
About Erich Kissing
- Erich Carl Kissing (born 27 September 1943) is a German painter known for his fantastic themes in combination with his high-precision glazing technique.
- On 27 September 1943 Kissing and his twin sister were born in Leipzig.
- He has a brother six years his senior.
- Their father worked as a plumber and in other crafts.
- Their mother was a housewife.
- Kissing lives and works in the house his parents built in Leipzig in 1935. At 14 Erich Kissing’s talent was discovered.
- From that time private drawing classes enhanced his abilities.
- After training to professionally retouch offset-prints he turned to study art in his hometown Leipzig from 1965 till 1970.
- During his studies at Hochschule fĂĽr Grafik und Buchkunst under the hands of his teachers Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Werner TĂĽbke he became an exquisite painter (Feinmalerei).
- His modern art is part of the Realist artistic movement “Leipzig School”.The characteristic style of his paintings results from his high-precision glazing technique which consists of several layers.
- To complete a painting he works on it for months on end.
- His themes are romantic and mystical sometimes bizarre but his style remains invariantly realistic.
- One of his most memorable motifs is the recurring hedonistic centaur. “Sommertag” picture link (2007–09) is the present high point of his art.
- It captivates the observer via Kissing’s characteristic objectivity, its large format and its reference to Diego Velázquez “The Triumph of Bacchus” (“Los Borrachos”, 1628–29).
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