Erich Kissing

German painter

Erich Kissing
Born	(1943-09-27)27 September 1943 Leipzig, Germany
Nationality	German
Education	Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt
Known for	Painting
Movement	Leipzig School

Erich Kissing (born in 27 September 1943) is a German painter. He has a twin sister and a brother six years his senior. Their father worked as a plumber, and their mother was a housewife. He lives and works in the house his parents built in Leipzig in 1935.

Erich Kissing took private drawing classes. After training to retouch offset-prints, he studied art in Leipzig from 1965 to 1970. His studies at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst was under Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Werner Tübke.^[1] His modern art is a part of the Realist–Leipzig School movement.

Erich Kissing's painting sometimes uses glazing techniques.^[2] The painting consists of several layers. One of his motifs is hedonistic centaur. His painting Sommertag (2007–09) has a reference to Diego Velázquez's The Triumph of Bacchus.

References

^ Lindner, Gerd; Kissing, Erich; Meißner, Günter (2010). "Erich Kissing Mythos Sehnsucht" (PDF). Panorama Museum (in German). Bad Frankenhausen: Förster & Borries GmbH. 1965–1970, p. 150 (registered as 48). ISBN 978-3938049167. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2016.
^ "Erich Kissing". Galerie E.K. (in German). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2024.