Erich Kissing

rdf:langString Erich Kissing

rdf:langString Erich Kissing

rdf:langString Erich Kissing

rdf:langString Leipzig, Germany

rdf:langString Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt

rdf:langString Kissing 1993 by Hans Dieter Kluge

rdf:langString painting

rdf:langString Erich Carl Kissing (born 27 September 1943) is a German painter known for his 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 and 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 and he had since taken private drawing classes to enhance 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 für Grafik und Buchkunst under the hands of his teachers Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Werner Tübke he became a painter. His modern art is part of the Realist Leipzig School. The characteristic style of his paintings results from his high-precision glazing technique which consists of several layers to completing 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 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).

rdf:langString Leipzig School