Georg Eisler

Georg Eisler was an Austrian painter from the school of Oskar Kokoshka who lived from 1928 to 1998. His father Hanns Eisler was a composer and his mother Charlotte (born Charlotte Demant) a well-known singer and music teacher.

His subject matter themes have included landscapes (often industrial featuring the north of England where he had lived after evacuating from Austria in 1936), group or crowd scenes (including jazz clubs and public transport) as well as nudes and still lifes. He returned to Vienna in 1946 where he died in 1998.

Eisler lectured at various universities including the Berlin University of the Arts (Udk), HFBK Hamburg, Stanford University, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Southern California.

References

* http://www.georgeisler.at/georg.eisler/allgemein.htm

Further reading

* Eisler, Georg, "My Father" in Blake, David (ed.), "Hanns Eisler: A Miscellany." Routledge, 1995. ISBN 3718655756