Emil Siemeister Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1954 -

After completing his schooling, from 1968 to 1971 Siemeister received his basic artistic education in the graphic arts department at the Graz School of Applied Arts . He then moved to Vienna where he completed seminars and lectures in ethnology and philosophy as an auditor at the University of Vienna. From 1973 to 1976 he continued to study graphics at the Department of Prints and Drawings at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 1991 he founded the edition and the publishing house Aut.press.Aut., In which his book- art works are published in very small editions. Since 1994 he has been a lecturer in graphic design and drawing at the Berlin University of the Arts , the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig , the School of Poetry Vienna and the Technical University of Dortmund .
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After the inaugurative manifesto for the suppression of art through a sewing machine (1974) and the second festival manifesto (1975), both of which were performed in house no. 69 in Deutsch Kaltenbrunn , Siemeister began his broad artistic work, involving a wide range of media and art Used expressions. Already since the early eighties, he dealt with the artistic film (video and super-8 film), which also documented his numerous body performances or performances, with other artists, such as Christian Ide Hintze . In 2001, he contributed with his artistic contribution Einsagevortrag with Lautzuspielung to Sim-sa-la-Bim at the opening of the Museum Sammlung Prinzhorn in Heidelberg.

The book art represents for Siemeister a central medium and procedure of its artistic work: So it manufactured since 1988 numerous artist books, which work in their medial and graphical variety with the evokativen force of the language magic and the speech picture and are today in numerous public collections. In addition to the study of language mantra, Siemeister's books always emphasize the visualization of the processuality of drawing and body performance, which is underlined above all through instructions, technical drawings and the frequent change of the medium of the drawings in the artist's book ,

In addition, in his exhibitions and body performances, Siemeister combined a wide variety of artistic media and frequently left the tried and tested terrain of graphic material aesthetics: Emil Siemeister, for example, dealt with the installation of complete spatial atmospheres through photographic plates (Helle Kammer project, Galerie Marianne Grob), or with the creation of a Drawing cycle on nylon (medium eccentric Andrew Kennedy, Pfalzgalerie, Städtisches Museum Kaiserslautern) and presented in 2006 under the title Spagyrik 2nd Floating the traps retrospective exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Benedictine Abbey Admont, in addition to classical methods of graphic work, his artistic work Use of large format printed plastic sheets, transilluminated photo plates and three-dimensional ballpoint pen drawings on nylon. In 2010 and 2011, he further developed his work on nylon and made a contribution to the artistic exploration of the "phenomenon of indentation and expression" based on his nylon drawings (Ausst.Kat it es breathes me , Oratory Marianum, University of Wroclaw) He created or applied three-dimensional figurations from the surface of the nylon image carrier.

Siemeister is also dedicated to the artistic cover design of exhibition catalogs (Prinzhorn Collection) and books. In 2004 he designed the Festschrift for the Zurich art historian Peter Cornelius Claussen (Opus Tesselatum, Festschrift for Peter Cornelius Claussen Georg Olms Verlag 2004).

His artistic work can be found in numerous public collections and libraries, including the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, the Art Library, the Book and Poster Art Collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , the Kupferstichkabinett of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Duchess Anna Amalia Library , Weimar, in the Universalmuseum Joanneum , Graz, in the Bavarian State Library , Munich, in the Austrian National Library , Vienna, in the Württemberg State Library , Stuttgart, in the Saxon State Library , Dresden, in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Admont Abbey , in the Städel , Frankfurt, in the German book and Scripture Museum Leipzig and in the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck.