West German artist, Willi Kissmer has built a solid reputation and an avid following in Europe with his quietly beautiful paintings and graphic works. He is a contemporary artist working in realism, that most uncontemporary of styles and has been described as a young master working in the style of the Old Masters. Unlike the work of many of his contemporaries, the paintings of Willi Kissmer are not abstract or expressionistic but instead are tied to a long tradition of realism in Northern European painting. The subjects of his pieces are simple still lifes, scenes from residential architecture and the female figure, each rendered with a fine eye to detail and a slightly disquieting sense of heightened observation.
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The artist was born in Duisburg, West Germany in 1951 and decided as a youth that he was going to be an artist. Torn between the two loves of music and painting, Kissmer played guitar for a rock group to fund his studies in art.Between 1971 and 1976, he studied painting and graphic arts at the Folkwang Art School in Essen. This school, now a part of the University of Essen, had courses of study in visual arts, dance, theater and music. While enrolled there, Kissmer studied graphic arts with professor Herman Schardt, the founder and director of the school, who is also a well recognized artist. Kissmer received solid training in the creation of graphics and was allowed to develop his own style of painting and choices of subject matter.
His early paintings were almost abstract compositions whose subjects were the interior walls of houses. Kissmer developed this choice of subject matter into depictions of sections of the interiors of houses or painting nudes or half nudes, which are oftentimes draped in swaths of lush fabric.
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De Galerie Den Haag offers you a choice of 7 werken from Willy Kissmer. Click on one of the works for more information and availability for hire.
