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Sighard Gille (b. 1941)
Sighard Gille was born in 1941 in Eilenburg, Germany.
He studied art at the HGB in Leipzig from 1965 until 1970 under Bernhard Heisig and Wolfgang Mattheuer.
Sighard Gille is member of the so called Leipziger Schule.
From 1980 until 1981 he was commissioned to work on a huge sealing painting at the Neues Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
In 1992 Sighard Gille became lecturer for fine art at the HGB in Leipzig.
Gille’s witted fusion of sensuality and brutality often pushes the limits of tolerability. Many of his pictures are outrageously obscene and vulgar, because of their honesty, as well as formally and professionally devastating. This is precisely the intention of the artist: with his paintings of the naked truth he challenges the viewer into critically examination.
Sighard Gille is represented in major exhibitions including the Biennale Venedig (1982, 1988).
Sighard Gille lives and works in Leipzig.
Sighard Gille (b.1941): EIN FREUNDLICHES JAHR 1997, Dry point etching,
Sheet size 10 x 14,5 cm
New Year Greetings 1997 from Sighard Gille to J. & R. Hammond with inscription (Ein freundliches Jahr 1997 wünscht Sighard Gille).
Sighard Gille (b.1941): GUTEN APPETIT 1998, Dry point etching,
Sheet size 10 x 14,5 cm
New Year Greetings 1998 from Sighard Gille to J. & R. Hammond with inscription (Guten Appetit 1998 wünscht Sighard Gille).
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