| |  | 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 | | 1978-97 | Head of Printmaking, Can ebrra School of Art (now ANU School of Art) | | 1982 | Lecture tour through China, Japan, Europe and the United States of America | | 1984 | Study tour of Ladakh | | 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 | | | Visiting Lecturer, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania | | 1996 | Fellowship, Japan Foundation, research in printmaking | | 1997 | Fellowship, Humanities Council, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA | | 1998 | Arts Fellowship, Australian Antarctic Division, for travel to Antarctica | | 1999 | Travel 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 | | | Guest Lecturer, Saga Fine Art University, Kyoto, Japan | | 2008 | Return 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, North Fremantle, Western Australia
| | 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, Queensland
| | 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
| | 2005 | ‘A long way I’, Holly Snapp Gallery, Venice, Italy
| | ‘A long way II’, Scuola Internazionale di Graficia, 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 DFG, 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, VIC
| | 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, Brooklyn, New York
| | 2000 | A 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
| | Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
| | The Williams Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
| | Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California, 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
| | 1998 | Todaiji temple, Nandaimon, Nara, Japan
| | 1997 | Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California, USA
| | The Williams Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
| | Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
| | 1995 | ‘Jorg Schmeisser: a survey of works from 1964 – 1995’, The Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT and touring nationally
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Galerie in Flottbek , Hamburg, Germany
| | Criterion Fine Art Gallery, Braidwood, NSW
| | Kensington Gallery, Adelaide
| | 1994 | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1993 | Eaton Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
| | 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
| | 1992 | Galerie Rutzmoser München, Germany
| | Galerie in Flottbek , Hamburg, Germany
| | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | 1991 | The Robb Street Gallery, Bairnsdale, Victoria
| | 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
| | 1990 | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | 1989 | PARCO Gallery, Tokyo
| | PARCO Gallery, Sapporo, Takashimaya, Osaka
| | Gallery Huntley, Canberra
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Kensington Gallery, Adelaide
| | Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
| | 1988 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1987 | Museum Jan Heestershuis, Schijndel, The Netherlands
| | 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
| | 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
| | The International Print Society, New Hope, Philadelphia, USA
| | Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Stadia Graphics, Sydney
| | 1983 | Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, NSW
| | Museum für Ostasiatische, Kunst, Cologne, Germany
| | Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, Germany
| | Gallery Heian, Kyoto, Japan
| | Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
| | 1982 | Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 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, 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
| | Galerie Wiegand, Koln, Germany
| | 1976 | Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne
| | Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
| | Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | Lufthansa, Piccadilly Circus, London
| | 1975 | Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | The International Print Society, New Hope, Philadelphia, USA
| | 1974 | Nora Art Gallery, Jerusalem
| | 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, Israel
| | 1969 | Daimaru, Osaka, Japan | | Seibu Gallery, Seibu Ikebukuro, Tokyo
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Group Exhibitions | | | 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’, 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, National Gallery, Bangkok, 2000
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 from 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 & Wunderlich, 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 Meredith, N.H.; ‘The Artist Abroad’, The 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
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
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, NSW
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France British Museum, London Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, USA
Free Library of Philadelphia, USA
Fremantle Arts Center, WA
Griffith University, QLD
Hamilton Art Gallery, QLD
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, Koln, Germany
Museum of Art and Archeology of Columbia
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, USA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, QLD
Sarah Blaffer Gallery Collection, University of Texas, USA
Staatliche Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Trenton State College, New Jersey, USA
University of Canberra, ACT
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Western Australian Institute of Technology, WA
Special NotesLectures 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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