- Artist: Jörg Schmeisser (dec)
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- Region: Canberra
Artwork Story
Jörg Schmeisser was born in Germany in 1942 and lived in Australia from 1978 when he was appointed Head of Printmaking and Drawing at Canberra School of Art at the Australian National University. Schmeisser’s distinguished printmaking career was informed by a restless curiosity about the perception and essence of the visual world. From the beginning, Schmeisser was inspired by travel, his imagination fired by regular experiences of the unfamiliar and unknown.
His love of travel took him to Israel, Thailand, Japan, China, USA, Europe and India. He participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. In 1968, he was awarded a German Academic Exchange Scholarship to Japan and in 1974 he received the Aldegrever-Gesellschaft Scholarship.
Jörg Schmeisser’s work is part of many high profile, public and private collections throughout Australia and overseas including the National Gallery of Australia; Australian National University; National Gallery of Victoria; Museum of Modern Art, New York. Jörg Schmeisser died in 2012.