Jorg Schmeisser

Jörg Schmeisser was born in Germany in 1942. He currently resides in Australia. Schmeisser studied at The Hamburg Fine Art Academy. After graduating in 1962, he became an assistant to Prof. Paul Wunderlich. Besides international teaching appointments, Schmeisser participated in archaelogical excavations in Israel and Greece, serving as an artist for The University of Missouri. Since 1976, he has held a vast number of exhibitions and academic posts. His love of travel has taken him to Israel, Thailand, Japan, China, USA, Europe and India. He has 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 corporate, 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; New York Public Library; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris; Israel Museum, Israel; Rothschild; CS First Boston; Lufthansa; Australian Insurance Institute; Hewlett Packard; Burdett Buckeridge & Young; Artbank; Myer Stores Ltd and The Art Trust.

Jörg Schmeisser's distinguished printmaking career is informed by a restless curiosity about the perception and essence of the visual world. From the beginning Schmeisser has been inspired by travel, his imagination fired by regular experiences of the unfamiliar and unknown. An alphabetical index of his prints would commence with Antarctica and conclude with Zanskar (Ladakh), with entries between on Canberra, Hamburg, Jersalem, Narra, Peking and Venice.

'As with Dürer, his noble forbearer, he has travelled to learn from other cultures and to interact with other artists. As with Hollar, he has captured the appearance of a world in constant flux, in landscape and in still life. As with Whistler, he has captured a new vision of places familiar and unknown, pushing his media to new expressive possibilities'. Eric Denker, from the Introduction 'A Close Look, Jörg Schmeisser'