Erwin Eisch

Erwin Eisch's name is inextricably linked with the international studio glass movement, which liberated glass from its purely utilitarian function and turned it into a material of artistic expression. The possibilities for adding curious ideas to the sculptural form are almost endless, but glass also acquires a poetic quality in Eisch's work as a background to be labelled or painted.

Power, dedication and a good dose of irony

The floating of his figures is a stylistic feature of Eisch's art in all areas. It is both an expression of his own sense of space in relation to the earth and the cosmos as well as a result of his impressions of Baroque mural painting, which accompanied him from a young age, particularly in the example of the ceiling painting by Franz Anton Rauscher in the Frauenau parish church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. He is and remains a painter and draughtsman in equal measure. In Erwin Eisch, it is important to recognise the idiosyncratic painter who, with strength, dedication and a good dose of wit and irony, takes us into a pictorial world that can give us new insights and perspectives. His drawings show a tricky, superficial humour, which is usually expressed in the title, such as "Whenever I'm blue". His paintings are more challenging - they are usually brittle and uncomfortable, they do not impose themselves, but want to be contemplated for a long time and in peace, in order to make their own world, the cosmos created by the artist, transparent to us.