Etching by Jorg Schmeisser
1991 - Long Service and Professional Development Leave. Travels to Greece
and USA. Preparation and exhibition of a print portfolio about the journey
to Greece. Demonstrations and talks in St Louis, Columbia Mo., and
Washington DC (Smithsonian Institute in co-operation with the Australian
Embassy)
1990 - Return to Canberra
1989 - Professor, Seika University,
Kyoto (one Academic Year)
1988 - Artist in Residence, Western
Australian College of Advanced Education (July/August)
1984
- Journey to Ladakh/Northern
India
1981-1982
- Journey
through China, Japan, USA to Europe
Since 1978 - Senior Lecturer, Head
of Printmaking, Canberra School of Art
1977 - Guest lecturer at the Bezalel
Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem (March) and
journey
to Japan as consultant to the Okamura Printing Company in setting up an
etching workshop in Nara (August)
1976 - Journey to Australia.
Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National
University, Canberra
1972-1978
- Tutor,
later Lecturer in printmaking at the Hamburg Fine Art Academy and first
work at Printworkshop Katelhon in Wamel/Germany
1970, Nepal 1971,
Burma 1973
1969-1971
- Teacher
at the International Design Institute, Kyoto and travels
to Thailand, 1968, Korea 1969, Cambodia 1969, India
1967 - Studies at the Kyoto Fine Art
Academy (Kyoto Shiritsu Bijutsu Daigaku)
1966 - Graduate art teacher (Kunsterzieherexamen)
and assistant to Paul Wunderlich
1965-1973 - Regular participation in
archaeological excavations as artist of the University of Missouri
Expedition in Israel and Greece
1962-1967 - Studies at Hamburg Fine
Art Academy (Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste)
1942
- Born in Stolp, Pomerania
Born in Pomerania in
1942, Jörg studied at the Hamburg Fine Art Academy before taking a
post-graduate position at the Fine Arts University of Kyoto, Japan where
his work progressed dramatically. From 1978 until 1997 he was head of the
Printmaking workshop of the Canberra School of Art, now part of the
Australian national University. He is currently Professor at the Kyoto
City University of Art where he studied 34 years ago.
He began his extensive travels in 1965 with a trip through the Middle
East. Over the next decades he developed a strong interest in archaeology
while working in a number of digs. The faithfulness to form and detail
that he developed while drawing for archaeological publications is still a
hallmark of many of his recent works.
Residencies and fellowships have taken him to Jerusalem, Perth, Hobart,
Hangzhou and Princeton University – and work projects to Ladakh, Angkor
and Antarctica.
He has held more than 130 solo exhibitions world-wide and is represented
in major private and public collections such as the Princeton University
Graphic Arts Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Bibliotheque
Nationale, Paris and the Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
He travelled to Antarctica with the Australian Antarctic Division’s
then-titled Humanities program in 1993.
He is based in Canberra – but is often elsewhere.
Excerpt taken from: Australian Government Antarctic Division.
2003
National Geographic
Headquarters, Washington, DC
Tasmanian Museum and Art
Gallery
2000
Canberra Museum and Gallery
Australian Embassy
Gallery, Washington, DC
1998
Todaiji, Nara and Australian Galleries, Sydney
1995
Survey
Exhibition 1964-95, Australian National University, Canberrra (touring)
1993
Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou
Galerie Rutzmoser,
Munchen
Gallery Heian, Kyoto
Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka
Comus Gallery,
Portland, Oregon
1992
Galerie Rutzmoser, Munich
Galerie in Flottbek,
Hamburg
1991
Kensington Gallery, Adelaide
Macedonian Centre of Contemporary Art, Thessalonika
Austral Gallery, St. Louis
James A. Michener Art
Museum, Doylestown, PA
The Robb Street Gallery, Bairnsdale, Victoria
Editions Southbank Galleries, Melbourne
Museum of Art and Archaeology,
University of Missouri, Columbia
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1990
Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka - Takashimaya, Osaka
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo
1989
PARCO Gallery, Tokyo
PARCO Parade Gallery,
Sapporo
Gallery Huntly, Canberra
Editions Southbank Galleries, Melbourne
Gallery Heian, Kyoto
1988
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Community Gallery of
Lancaster, PA
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
The Norfolk Library, Norfolk,
Connecticut
Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
1987
- Museum Jan Heestershuis *
Leonard Milberg Gallery for Graphic
Arts *, Princeton University, Princeton NJ
BMW Pavillon, Munchen*
The
Print Club, Philadelphia, PA*
Gallery Heian, Kyoto
Ashiya Mate Gallery, Ashiya
Galerie November, Berlin; Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco*
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, New York
Grahame
Galleries, Brisbane
Isao Gallery, Nara
Galerie Paepcke, Karlsruhe*
Galerie in der Hofstatt, Marburg
Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi* and
Gallery Huntly, Canberra
* Exhibition of a Journey to Ladakh together with Photographs by Jaroslav
Poncar
1986
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo
Gallery Heian, Kyoto
Commerzbank, Frankfurt
Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst der Stadt, Koln *
Gallery Huntly, Canberra*
Galerie
in Flottbek*
Galerie Schnake, Muster*
Commerzbank, Hamburg
Tynte
Gallery, Adelaide*
Stadi Graphics Gallery, Sydney*
Editions Gallery, Melbourne*
Kunsthalle und Norishalle der Albrecht Durer Gesellschaft
PARCO, Tokyo
Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
Gloucester County College*
Galerie an der Muhle, Hanigsen, Burgdorf
The Printmaker’s Gallery,
Toronto
*
Exhibition of a Journey to Ladakh together with Photographs by Jaroslav
Poncar
1985
The National Gallery, Bangkok
Milberg Gallery for
Graphic Arts, Princeton University
Itami Municipal Museum Gallery, Itami
Galerie Wiegand, Koln
Visual Dhamma Art Gallery, Toronto
Print Club, Philadelphia
The Printmakers Gallery, Toronto
Galerie November,
Berlin
1984
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe
Gallery Huntly, Canberra
Stadia Graphics, Sydney
Editions Galleries, Melbourne
International
Print Society, New Hope, PA
Don Soker – Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco
Recent Works Gallery, Lancaster, PA
1983
Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, WA
Gallery Heian, Kyoto
Von
Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
Gallery le castrum Roussillion
Museum fur
Ostasiatische Kunst, Koln
Albrecht Durer Gesellschaft, Nurnberg
Craft
Kuniyoshi Gallery, Okinawa
Fine Arts Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Queensland College of Art Gallery
Kunstamt Berlin – Tempehof; Galerie
in Rathaus, Berlin
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
1982
Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Carpenter Center for the
Visual Arts, Harvard University
Galerie in der Hofstatt, Hamburg
Galerie
November, Berlin
Gallery Huntly, Canberra
The International Print
Society, New Hope, PA
Stadia Graphics Gallery, Sydney
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Galerie 39, London
Tynte Gallery, Adelaide
1981
Van Wickle
Gallery, Easton, PA
Museum of Art &
Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia
Gallery Huntly, Canberra
Samuel Paley Library, Temple University, Philadelphia
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo
Sword Street Gallery, Toronto
The International Print Society, New Hope
Gallery Ashiya Mate, Ashiya
Galerie in Flottbek, Hamburg
1980
Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
Chicago Public Library
Cultural Center
Takashimaya, Osaka
Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Stadia Graphics Gallery, Sydney
Galerie
Volker Wiegand, Koln
1979
Gallery Heian, Kyoto
Editions Gallery,
Melbourne
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo
The College Centre Gallery, Gloucester
County College, NJ
Galerie Epreuve d’Artiste, Beirut
1978
Stadia Graphics Gallery, Sydney
Galerie in Flottbek,
Hamburg
Gallery Huntly, Canberra
The
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery of the University of Houston, Texas
1977
Galerie Wiegand, Cologne
Nora Art Gallery,
Jerusalem
Galerie im Keller, Neheim Husten
1976
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Lufthansa, Piccadilly
Circus, London
The International Print Society, New Hope, PA
Galerie
November, Berlin
Gallery
Huntly, Canberra
Deutsher
Galleries, Melbourne
Kunstpavillion der Stadt Soest
1975
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo
Umetani Gallery, Osaka
Galerie der Gruppe Grun, Bremen
Europa Gallery, Melbourne
Galerie im
Hause Schreiber, Hamburg
Kaufhaus Tokyo, Sapporo
1974
Gallery Huntly, Canberra
Van Delden & Cie,
Munster
Galerie Trost, Lippstadt
Nora Gallery, Jerusalem
1973
Museum of Art and Archaeology,
University of Missouri, Columbia
Galerie in Flottbek,
Hamburg
Messerschmidt – Bolkow Blohm Galerie
Munchen – Ottobrunn
Buchhandlung
Gillmeister und Commerzbank in Peine
Roemer – Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim
1972
Nora Art Gallery, Jerusalem
Daimaru, Osaka
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo
1971
Gallery Iteza, Kyoto
Tenmaya, Okayama
1970
Gallery Iteza,
Kyoto
Artists
House Jerusalem
Daimaru, Kyoto
Aoki Gallery, Tokyo
1969
Daimaru, Osaka
Kunsthalle,
Hamburg.
Museum
fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
Sammlungen
Vogel C & C, Hamburg.
Staatliche Sammlungen, Dresden.
Museum
fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Koln.
Bibliotheque
Nationale, Paris.
Museum
of Modern Art, New York.
New
York Public Library.
Museum
of Art and Archaeology, Columbia University.
New
jersey State Museum, Trenton.
Morris
Museum of Arts and Science, Morristown.
Trenton
State College.
Free
Library of Philadelphia.
Princeton
University Graphics Art Collection.
Sarah
Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas.
National
University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo, Japan.
Kyoto
Seika University, Japan.
Machida
City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan.
Cincinnati
Museum of Art.
Australian
National Gallery, Canberra.
Australian
National University, Canberra.
National
Library, Canberra.
National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Bendigo
Art Gallery.
The
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
The
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
Western
Australian Institute of Technology, Perth.
University
of Tasmania, Hobart.
Griffith
University, Brisbane.
Mitchell
College of Advanced Education, Bathurst.
Canberra
College of Advanced Eduction.
Queensland
Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
University
of Tasmania, Hobart.
Art
Bank, Sydney.
Newcastle
Regional Art Gallery.
Fremantle
Art Centre, Western Australia.
Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery.
Western
Australian Art Gallery.