EISLER , Georg.

Georg Eilser
Austrian 1928-1998
Georg Eisler was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. In 1939 , after the Nazi invasion of Austria , Eisler moved to England,. In Manchester Georg attended Manchester Central High School for Boys and later became a student at the Stockport School of Art and Manchester Academy. He was introduced to Oskar Kokoschka, the famed expressionist artist, in London, who agreed to give him lessons. In 1946 he returned to Vienna to continue his art studies but never lost touch with England. In 1970 ,Otto Klemperer commissioned Eisler to design the sets and costumes for Mozart's "Magic Flute" at Covent Garden Royal Opera House. In 1968 he was elected President of the Vienna Secession, and served two terms. He had several one-man shows in England, at the Manchester City Art Gallery in 1988 (which resulted in a BBC program) and at the Fisher Fine Art Gallery in London in 1989. He exhibited his work in numerous venues around Europe, including participation in the 1982 Venice Biennale. He also commenced his career as a major book illustrator. He taught at the Salzburg Simmer Academy and several times at the German Summer School run by the University of New Mexico in Taos. A major retrospective of his work was presented at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna in 2001 and another at the Albertina Museum in Vienna in 2001. His work is in the permanent collections of the Albertina, the Portrait Gallery of the British Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

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