Erich Kissing
Erich Kissing (born on 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.
Also recorded as Erich Carl Kissing
Erich Kissing
- Name
- Erich Kissing
- Born
- 27 September 1943
- Birthplace
- Leipzig, Germany
- Training
- Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt
- Movement
- Leipzig School
- Known for
- Painting
- Nationality
- Germany · East Germany
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Languages
- German
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He lives and works in the house his parents built in Leipzig in 1935. 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. His modern art is a part of the Realist–Leipzig School movement. Painting sometimes uses glazing techniques. 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.
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• Name — Erich Kissing • Born — 27 September 1943 • Birthplace — Leipzig, Germany • Training — Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt • Movement — Leipzig School • Known for — Painting
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