| |  | 1942 | Born Stolp, Pomerania (now Poland) | | 1962-67 | Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg, Germany | | 1967-68 | Graduate studies, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan | | 1972-78 | Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany | | 1976 | Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra | | 1977 | Visiting Artist, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel | | 1978-97 | Head of Printmaking, Canberra School of Art, Canberra (now ANU School of Art) | | 1982 | Lecture tour through China, Japan, Europe and the United States of America | | 1984 | Study tour of Ladakh, India | | 1988 | Artist in Residence, Western Australian College of Advanced Education, Perth (now Edith Cowan University) | | 1989 | Professor, Faculty of Art, Kyoto Seika University, Japan | | 1993 | Artist in Residence, Zheijiang Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou, China (now China Academy of Art) | | | Visiting Lecturer, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania | | 1996 | Fellowship, The Japan Foundation, research in printmaking, Sydney | | 1997 | Fellowship, Humanities Council, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA | | 1998 | Arts Fellowship, Australian Antarctic Division, Australian Government, Hobart | | 1999 | Travelled to Angkor, Cambodia | | 2001 | Artist in Residence, University of Tasmania, Hobart | | 2002-08 | Professor, Faculty of Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan | | 2003 | Guest Lecturer, Tokyo National University of Arts, Japan | | | Guest Lecturer, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan | | 2004 | Guest Lecturer, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Japan | | 2005 | Artist in Residence, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy | | | Guest Lecturer, Saga Fine Art University, Kyoto, Japan | | 2008 | Returned to Australia | Solo Exhibitions | | | 2010 | Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, Queensland
| | Beaver Galleries, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
| | 2009 | ‘Narratives of process and time in the prints of Jorg Schmeisser’, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
| | ‘Etchings’, Gallery East, Perth
| | 2008 | ‘Breaking the ice’, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
| | ‘Before leaving...’, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
| | ‘The softer line’, Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
| | 2007 | ‘Elsewhere’, Cairns Regional Art Gallery, Cairns, QLD
| | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi, Japan
| | 2006 | ‘Places’, Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
| | Galerie Paris Yokohama, Japan
| | Orange Regional Gallery
| | ‘Breaking the ice’, Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen, Germany
| | 2005 | ‘A long way I’, Holly Snapp Gallery, Venice, Italy
| | ‘A long way II’, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
| | ‘A long way I & II’, Holly Snapp Gallery, Venice, Italy
| | ‘A long way I & II’, Scuola Internazionale di Graficia, Venice, Italy
| | ‘Breaking the Ice’, Australian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
| | ‘Breaking the Ice’, German Science Foundation Bonn (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Germany
| | 2004 | ‘A Winter’s Journey, drawing and prints’, Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | ‘Breaking the Ice’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | ‘Breaking the Ice and recent works’, Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco USA
| | ‘Breaking the Ice’,Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘Breaking the Ice’, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
| | 2003 | ‘Breaking the Ice', Australian Embassy, Washington DC, USA
| | ‘Angkor’, National Geographic Society, Washington DC, USA
| | ‘Breaking the Ice and recent drawings’, Aoki Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
| | ‘Breaking the Ice’ Shin Puh Kan, Kyoto, Japan
| | ‘…ask that your way be long (works on paper)’, 5+5 Gallery, New York, USA
| | 2000 | A Closer Look, Jörg Schmeisser, Etchings and Drawings from Travels in Australia and Asia,
| | Australian Embassy Washington DC, USA
| | ‘Figures and Fragments from Angkor’, Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | ‘New Etchings: Angkor Wat’, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
| | ‘Heritage of Angkor’, The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
| | Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
| | The Williams Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
| | Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
| | Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk, Poland
| | ‘Breaking the ice’, Tasmanian Museum and Gallery, Hobart
| | 1999 | ‘Recent Work’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | ‘A Closer Look: Jörg Schmeisser, Etchings and Drawings From Angkor, Nara and the Coast’, Canberra Museum and Gallery
| | Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
| | Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | 1998 | Todaiji temple, Nandaimon, Nara, Japan
| | 1997 | Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
| | The Williams Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
| | Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
| | 1995 | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Galerie in Flottbek , Hamburg, Germany
| | Criterion Fine Art Gallery, Braidwood, NSW
| | Kensington Gallery, Adelaide
| | ‘Jorg Schmeisser: a survey of works from 1964 – 1995’, The Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra and touring nationally
| | 1994 | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1993 | Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China
| | Cumos Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
| | Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | Grahame Galleries, Sydney
| | Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
| | Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
| | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | Eaton Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
| | 1992 | Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
| | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | Galerie Rutzmoser München, Germany
| | 1991 | Macedonian Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
| | James A Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
| | Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Kensington Gallery, Adelaide
| | The Robb Street Gallery, Bairnsdale, Victoria
| | 1990 | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | 1989 | PARCO Gallery, Sapporo, Osaka, Japan
| | Gallery Huntley, Canberra
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Kensington Gallery, Adelaide
| | Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
| | PARCO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | 1988 | Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1987 | Leonard Milberg Gallery for Graphic Arts, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
| | Soker-Kasman Gallery, San Francisco, USA
| | Gallery November, Berlin, Germany
| | Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
| | Museum Jan Heestershuis, Schijndel, The Netherlands
| | 1986 | Stadia Graphics, Sydney
| | Tynte Gallery, Adelaide
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
| | Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
| | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
| | 1985 | Galerie Wiegand, Köln, Germany
| | The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
| | The Printmakers Gallery, Toronto, Canada
| | Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
| | The Print Club, Philadelphia, USA
| | 1984 | Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
| | The International Print Society, New Hope, Philadelphia, USA
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Stadia Graphics, Sydney
| | 1983 | Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, NSW
| | Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, Germany
| | Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, Germany
| | Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
| | Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
| | 1982 | Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, USA
| | Soker-Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
| | Galerie 39, London, UK
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Stadia Graphics, Sydney
| | The International Print Society, New Hope, Philadelphia, USA
| | Soker-Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
| | Tynte Gallery, Adelaide
| | 1981 | Sword Street Gallery, Toronto, Canada
| | Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
| | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | The International Print Society, New Hope, Philadelphia, USA
| | 1980 | Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan
| | Chicago Public Library Gallery, Chicago, USA
| | Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
| | Stadia Graphics, Sydney
| | 1979 | Galerie Epreuve d’Artiste, Beirut, Lebanon
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
| | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | 1978 | Sarah Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas, USA
| | Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
| | Stadia Graphics, Sydney
| | 1977 | Nora Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
| | Galerie Wiegand, Koln, Germany
| | 1976 | Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne
| | Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
| | Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | Lufthansa, London. UK
| | 1975 | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | The International Print Society, New Hope, Philadelphia, USA
| | 1974 | Nora Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
| | Gallery Huntly, Canberra
| | 1973 | Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germay
| | Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim, Germany
| | Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
| | 1972 | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | Nora Art Gallery, Jerusalem
| | 1970 | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, Japan
| | The Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel
| | 1969 | Daimaru, Osaka, Japan |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2011 | 'Blue Mud Bay & Other Journeys Drawings & Etchings', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
| | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
| | ‘Personal Space: Contemporary Chinese and Australian Prints’, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, NSW
| | 2010 | 'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ‘Australian Drawing I’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
| | 2009 | Gallery East, Perth, with Keiko Amenomori Schmeisser
| | Kätelhön Kunst, Wamel, Germany, with Keiko Amenomori Schmeisser
| | 2008 | 'Stock show', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | ‘Cold Front’, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales
| | 2007 | ‘The story of Australian printmaking 1801 – 2005’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
| | 2006 | 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | ‘50th Anniversary Exhibition’, 5th June, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2005 | ‘Fireworks, tracing the incendiary in Australian Art’, Artspace, Mackay, and touring
| | ‘Corcoran Printfolio’, Corcoran Museum of Art. Washington DC, USA
| | ‘2005 Printportfolio’, Washington DC, USA
| | ‘East and West’, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku Museum Hanga, Japan
| | ‘The Plates’, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku Gallery, Japan
| | 2004 | ‘Acquisitions 1995 – 2004’, ANU Art Collection, Canberra
| | ‘Contemporary Australian Prints from the Collection’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Ruth Prowse: 30 years of collecting’, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT
| | ‘Thema Land’, Galerie Netuschil, Germany
| | ‘Power of Printmaking’, Kyoto City Museum, Japan
| | 1995 | ‘50 Post War Years’, Kanagawa, Yokohama
| | 1993 | ‘Kochi International Triennial Exhibitions of Prints’, Kochi, Japan
| | 1992 | ‘Norwegian International Print Triennial’ Frederikstad, Norway
| | ‘Animals on Paper’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1990 | ‘Come up and see our etchings’, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
| | 1985 | ‘2nd International Biennial Print Exhibit’, Taipei
| | 1984 | ‘10th International Print Biennale’, Crakow
| | 1981 | ‘Euro biennale’, Baden, Baden | | 2001‘Angkor Revisited, Jörg Schmeisser and Jargo Poncar’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
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BibliographyBooks Attenborough, David, Keay, John & Goepper, Roger; Ladakh, Land of the Passes, Poncar / Schmeisser, Museum for Ostasiatische Kunst Köln / Weinand Verlag and Edition Weigand Köln, Germany, 1985, p. 96 Beispiele 3/ 83 Exhibition Catalogue, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürenburg, Germany, 1983, p.14 Denker, Eric; Jorg Schmeisser: Etchings from Angkor, The National Gallery, Bangkok, 2000 Denker, Eric & Gates, Merryn; A Close Look: Jörg Schmeisser: Etchings and drawings from Angkor, Nara and the coast, Canberra Museum and Gallery, December 1999 Drury, Neville; New (ed.) Craftsman House 1992, Sydney, p. 174 Essen, G.W.; Jörg Schmeisser Exhibition Catalogue, Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany, 1973, p. 22 Goepper, Roger; Asiatische Landschaften und Legenden, Museum für Ostasiaitische Kunst Köln, Germany, 1983, p. 48 Hansen, David; Jörg Schmeisser: Breaking the Ice (works from the Antarctic 1988-2003), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 2003 Jörg Schmeisser Exhibition Catalogue, Griffin Corporation, Tokyo, Japan & Germany, 1975, p. 40 Jörg Schmeisser Exhibition Catalogue, Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany 1978, p. 20 Jörg Schmeisser: Etchings 1974 – 1979, complete catalogue of etchings from 1974 – 1979, Okamura Insatsu, Nara, Japan, 1979, p. 62 Lamb, Jeniffer; Jörg Schmeisser, A Survey of Works 1964 – 1995, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW, 1995 McCulloch, Allan & McCulloch, Susan; The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, 1994, p.627 Nihon Bekken/Schmeisser, Japanbuilder, Woodcuts for the Kojiki, etchings and drawings from Japan, Yomiuri Press, Tokyo, Japan 1971, p. 120 Thomson, Alice & Wunderlich, Paul; Ask that your way be long, Wünsch Dir eine lange Fehrt....., Schmeisser Etchings, Parco Publishing, Tokyo, Edition Weigand, Köln, 1987 Sturgeon, Grahame; Australia – The Painters Vision, Bay Books, Sydney & London, 1991 Zeichnungen und Drucke zu Kaempfer’s History of Japan in Engelbert Kaempfer, Werk und Wirling, Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, 1993, pp 294 – 236
Journals“An Artist’s Archeological Journal in Archaeology”, Archaeology, Vol.28, No.2, New York, 1975, pp 170 – 177 Denker, Eric; “Ask that your way may be long”, Craft Art International, Sydney, July 1994 Geierhass, Franz & Meredith, N.H.; “Images of a Journey to Greece”, Journal of the Print World, Winter, 1972 Geierhass, Franz & Meredith, N.H.; “The Artist Abroad”, Journal of the Print World, Summer 1984 “Japanese Myths – Woodcuts by a German Artist”, ABU Magazine and Documentary and NHK Television, Tokyo, Japan, 1972 Sansai Art Magazine, Tanaka Hisao, Tokyo, Feb 1970, Jan 1971, April 1972 and Yoshimura Sadaji in Jan 1973 Schmeisser, Jörg, "For Example Lord Howe Island" Jörg Schmeisser: a Survey of works from 1964-1995, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 1995
Films and Videos Barron, Paul; ‘First Impressions, Documentary” Perth Institute of Film and Television, Perth, 1981 “Jörg Schmeisser, Master Printer”, Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey, USA, 1988 “Sea Spray and Robin Dust, Documentary”, Western Australian College of Advanced Education, Perth, 1989
CollectionsArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Artbank, Sydney Australian National Library, Canberra Australian National University, Canberra Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France British Museum, London Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA Curtin University of Technology, Perth Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, USA Free Library of Philadelphia, USA Fremantle Arts Center, Fremantle, WA Griffith University, Brisbane Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, VIC Kunsthalle Hamburg, Museum for Art, Germany Kyoto Seika University, Japan Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece Machilda City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan Mitchell College of Advances Education, Bathurst, NSW Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, Germany Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA National Gallery of America, Washington DC, USA National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne National University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo, Japan New York Public Library, USA Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW Parliament House Collection, Canberra Princeton University Graphics Art Collection, New Jersey, USA Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Queensland University of Technology, QLD Sarah Blaffer Gallery Collection, University of Texas, USA Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart Trenton State College, New Jersey, USA University of Canberra, Canberra University of Tasmania, Hobart Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth
Special NotesLectures and workshops since 2003 Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan Ryukyu Fine Art University, Naha Okinawa, Japan Saga Art University, Kyoto, Japan
Tokyo National University of Art and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Photograph courtesy of Keiko Amenomori Schmeisser
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