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Jorg Schmeisser

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 Jorg Schmeisser
1942Born Stolp, Pomerania (now Poland)
1962-67Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg, Germany
1967-68Graduate studies, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan
1972-78Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany
1976Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
1977 Visiting Artist, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1978-97Head of Printmaking, Can ebrra School of Art (now ANU School of Art)
1982Lecture tour through China, Japan, Europe and the United States of America
1984Study 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
1993Artist in Residence, Zheijiang Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou, China
 Visiting Lecturer, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania
1996Fellowship, Japan Foundation, research in printmaking
1997Fellowship, Humanities Council, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
1998Arts Fellowship, Australian Antarctic Division, for travel to Antarctica
1999 Travel to Angkor, Cambodia
2001Artist in Residence, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2002-08 Professor, Faculty of Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan
2003Guest Lecturer, Tokyo National University of Arts, Japan
 Guest Lecturer, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
2004Guest Lecturer, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Japan
2005Artist in Residence, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice
 Guest Lecturer, Saga Fine Art University, Kyoto, Japan
2008Return to Australia
                                                                                                      

Solo Exhibitions

2010Grahame 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
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
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
1998Todaiji temple, Nandaimon, Nara, Japan
1997Don 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
1994Editions Gallery, Melbourne
1993Eaton 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
1992Galerie Rutzmoser München, Germany
Galerie in Flottbek , Hamburg, Germany
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991The 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
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
1988Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
1987Museum 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
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
The Print Club, Philadelphia, USA
1984Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe
The International Print Society, New Hope, Philadelphia, USA
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Stadia Graphics, Sydney
1983Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, NSW
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, Philadelphia, USA
Soker-Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Tynte Gallery, Adelaide
1981Sword Street Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The International Print Society, New Hope, Philadelphia, USA
1980Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan
Chicago Public Library Gallery, USA
Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
Stadia Graphics, Sydney
1979Galerie Epreuve d’Artiste, Beirut, Lebanon
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
Galerie Wiegand, Koln, Germany
1976Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne
Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany
Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Lufthansa, Piccadilly Circus, London
1975Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The International Print Society, New Hope, Philadelphia, USA
1974Nora Art Gallery, Jerusalem
Gallery Huntly, Canberra
1973Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg, Germay
Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim, Germany
Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
1972Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Nora Art Gallery, Jerusalem
1970Aoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, Japan
The Jerusalem Artists’ House, Israel
1969Daimaru, Osaka, Japan
Seibu Gallery, Seibu Ikebukuro, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2010'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Australian Drawing I’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2009Gallery 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

Bibliography

Books
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

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
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 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