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Statement
Sighard Gille - restless
Sighard Gille is one of the leading Leipzig artists who, since the 1970s, have shaped Leipzig painting with their independent and impressive pictorial language. He is a sensitive, ironic commentator of everyday situations and social developments, in which the painterly is in the foreground. Gille achieved great fame through the monumental ceiling design in the foyer of the Leipzig Gewandhaus and is therefore not only known to art connoisseurs. In 1980/81 he realised the 714 square metre mural "Song of Life", the largest ceiling painting in Europe.
© Uwe M. Schneede (excerpt from the introduction to the catalogue of paintings, 2016)
GILLE sighard
Vita
| 1941 | born in Eilenburg, Gille is married to the art historian Dr. Ina Gille, he lives and works in Leipzig |
| since 2018 | Cooperation with the gallery FLOX |
| BOOKS AND REGISTER Of WORKS | |
| 2016/2017 | comprehensive personal exhibition in the "Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig", register of works with complete catalogue of paintings from 1962-2015 |
| 2010 | register of print works from 1966-2010 |
| 2008 | Daniel Kehlmann: „Berholms Vorstellung" With twelve coloured vignettes and four original lithographs by Sighard Gille. Published by Faber & Faber Leipzig 2008 in the series "Die Graphische Bücher Erstlingswerke deutscher Autoren des 20. Jahhunderts Band 33". |
| 2007 | "Painter's Models / Malermodelle" pinholecamera photography Text T.O. Immish Sighard Gille, Leipzig, |
| 2004 | "Don Quixote" appears at edition Faber & Faber, Leipzig with coloured illustrations |
| 1997 | Sighard Gille: WHITE NEW YORK. Pinhole Camera Photo With a text by Peter Gosse edition Passage-Verlag Leipzig, 1997 |
| 1992 | Sighard Gille: pinholecamera. Pinhole camera photo edxition |
| BIENNALE | |
| 1982 | Biennale de Venezia |
| 1988 | Biennale de Venezia |
| EDUCATION/STUDIES | |
| 2006 | emeritus professor at the HGB Leipzig |
| 1992 | Appointment as Professor of Painting at the HGB Leipzig with his own specialist class, involved in the training of the "New Leipzig School" |
| 1979-1981 | Work on the 740 sqm large ceiling painting " Song of Life / Gesang vom Leben" in the "Neuen Gewandhaus Leipzig". |
| 1973-1976 | Master student at the Academy of Arts Berlin under Professor Bernhard Heisig, then six-week study trip through the Soviet Union |
| 1965-1970 | Studied painting at the "Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig" under the professors Bernhard Heisig, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt |
| until 1965 | Abitur, two semesters of agricultural studies at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, work in various Leipzig companies, especially in the photographic industry, acquires the skilled worker's certificate for portrait photography |
Exhibitions (Solo and Group), Fairs, Collections
| since 1971 | Gilles' works are in collections of Städtischen Museen Altenburg, Berlin, Halle, Schwerin, Frankfurt/Oder, der Sammlung Ludwig in Bejing, Budapest, Vienna, Petersburg and in many other private and public collections. Art Fairs Cologne, Basel und Karlsruhe |