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Jorg Schmeisser

SELECTED WORKS

 Jorg Schmeisser
1942Born Stolp, Pomerania (now Poland)

Solo Exhibitions

2005‘A long way I & II’, Holly Snapp Gallery, Venice, Italy
‘A long way I & II’, Scuola Internazionale di Graficia, Venice, Italy
‘Breaking the Ice’, Galerie Zwang, Hamburg
‘Breaking the Ice’, Australian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
‘Breaking the Ice’, German Science Foundation Bonn DFG, Germany
2004‘A Winter’s Journey, drawing and prints’, Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
‘Breaking the Ice’ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Bonn, Germany
‘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, VIC
2003‘Breaking the Ice, Works from a journey to Antarctica’, 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, Brooklyn, New York
2000A Closer Look, Jörg Schmeisser, Etchings and Drawings from Travels in Australia and Asia,
Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, USA
‘Figures and Fragments From Angkor’, Aoki Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
‘New Etchings: Angkor Wat’, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
‘Heritage of Angkor’, National Gallery Bangkok, Thailand
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
1995Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Galerie in Flottbek , Hamburg, Germany
Criterion Fine Art Gallery, Braidwood, NSW
Kensington Gallery, Adelaide
1994Editions Gallery, Melbourne
1993Eaton Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
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
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992Galerie Rutzmoser München, Germany
Galerie in Flottbek , Hamburg, Germany
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991The Robb Street Gallery, Bairnsdale
Macedonian Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
James A Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri, Columbia
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Kensington Gallery, Adelaide
1990Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989PARCO Gallery, Tokyo
PARCO Gallery, Sapporo, Takashimaya, Osaka
Gallery Huntley, Canberra
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Kensington Gallery, Adelaide
Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
1988Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
1987Museum Jan Heestershuis, Schijndel
Leonard Milberg Gallery for Graphic Arts
Soker-Kasman Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Gallery November, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
1986Stadia Graphics, Sydney
Tynte Gallery, Adelaide
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
1985Galerie Wiegand, Köln, Germany
The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
The Printmakers Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
1984Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe
The International Print Society, New Hope
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Stadia Graphics, Sydney
1983Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
Museum für Ostasiatische, Kunst, Cologne, Germany
Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, Germany
Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
1982Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, USA
Galerie 39, London, UK
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Stadia Graphics, Sydney
The International Print Society, New Hope
1981Sword Street Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The International Print Society, New Hope
1980Chicago Public Library Gallery, USA
Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
Stadia Graphics, Sydney
1979Galerie Epreuve d’Artiste, Beirut
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1978Sarah Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas, USA
Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
Stadia Graphics, Sydney
1977Nora Art Gallery, Jerusalem
1976Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne
Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
1975Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The International Print Society, New Hope
1974Nora Art Gallery, Jerusalem
1973Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germay
1972Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Nora Art Gallery, Jerusalem
1970Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2008'Stock show', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2006'50th Anniversary Exhibition', 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
‘The Plates’, National University of the Arts Tokyo, Japan
‘Hanga’, National University of the Arts Museum, Tokyo
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

Bibliography

Books
Attenborough, David, Keay, John & Goepper: RogerLadakh Poncar / Schmeisser, Museum for Ostasiatische Kunst Köln / Weinand Verlag and Edition Weigand Köln, Germany & UK, 1985, p. 96
Beispiele 3/ 83 Exhibition Catalogue, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürenburg, Germany 1983, p.14
Denker, Eric & Gates, Merryn; A Close Look: Jörg Schmeisser: Etchings and drawings from Angkor, Nara and ‘the coast, Dec 1999, Canberra Museum and Gallery
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 fro 1974 – 1979, Okamura Insatsu, Nara., Japan, 1979, p. 62
Lamb, Jeniffer; Jörg Schmeisser, A Survey of Works 1964 – 1995, Goulbourn Regional Art Gallery, 1995
McCulloch, Allan &The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allan and Susan McColloch, 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 & Weunderlich, Paul; Ask that your way be long, Wünsch Dir eine lange Fehrt....., Schmeisser Etchings, Parco Publishing, Tokyo 1987, 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”, 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.; Journal of the Print World, “Images of a Journey to Greece”, Winter 1972
Geierhass, Franz & Meredith, N.H.; “The Artist Abroad”, Journal of the Print World, The Artist, 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
Jörg Schmeisser by Pat Gilmour, Visions and Revisions by Akira Kurosaki, For Example Lord Howe Island by Jörg Schmeisser and Journeyman in Purnululu by Merran Gates. Goanna Print, Second Printing 1996. Project assisted by the Regional Galleries Association of NSW through the assistance of the NSW Ministry for the Arts and the Australia Council, the Federal Government’s funding and advisory body, by the Gothe-Institut Canberra and the Australian National University Canberra School of Art, p.32

Films and Videos
Barron, Paul; ‘First Impressions, Documentary” Perth Institute of Film and Television, 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

Collections

Art 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, NSW
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
Free Library of Philadelphia, USA
Freemantle Arts Center, WA
Griffin University, QLD
Hamilton Art Gallery, QLD
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Museum for Art, Germany
Kyoto Seika University, Japan
Machilda City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Art and Archeology of Columbia
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 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, USA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, QLD
Sarah Blaffer Gallery Collection, University of Texas, USA
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
University of Canberra, ACT
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Western Australian Institute of Technology, WA

Special Notes

Lectures and workshops since 2003
Kyoto Seika University
Ryukyu Fine Art University, Naha Okinawa
Nihon University, Tokyo
Tokyo National University of Art and Music
Saga Art University, Kyoto



Photograph courtesy of Keiko Amenomori Schmeisser

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