Martin Giesen
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| Born | 1945 (age 78–79) |
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Martin Giesen is a German watercolour artist and former art and design professor best known for his landscape and city paintings of the Levant and Gulf region.
Born in 1945 in Osnabrueck and schooled in Fulda and Berlin, Giesen started to paint at age 15. After his abitur he studied art history at Heidelberg University. For one year (1970–71) he interned as research assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York followed by completion of a PhD (Universität Heidelberg 1973). With marriage and children, Giesen entered into a career of university teaching.[1]
His first academic appointment took him to Lebanon in 1973 just a few months before the country plunged into the Civil War.[2] At the American University of Beirut he taught history of art and architecture.[3] His first exhibition at the Goethe Institut in Beirut (1979) featured semi-abstract “ancestral landscapes” in acrylics and etchings.[4] In 1981, Giesen began painting watercolours on-site in the largely destroyed inner city of Beirut.[5] The impact of the war on infrastructure and lifestyle became the main focus and subject matter of his increasingly prodigious production of work. Close cooperation with Galerie Epreuve d’Artiste led to frequent exhibitions and critical acclaim.[6] [7] [8] [9]
After academic appointments in Saudi Arabia and Canada, Giesen returned to the Middle East in 1997. He was the founding Dean of the College of Architecture and Design at the American University of Sharjah until 2004.[10] Giesen retired in 2020 and now lives in Cyprus.
References
- ↑ https://artandculturetoday.wordpress.com/art/painting/martin-giesen-the-versatility-and-power-of-watercolor/
- ↑ Martin Giesen, Endangered Abundance, in Yearbook 1968-2018, 50th Architecture Anniversary, AUB, Abir Eltayeb and Aram Yeretzian (eds.), Beirut 2018
- ↑ John Munro, Giesen’s Lebanon, Rihani House, Beirut, 1984
- ↑ John Munro, Travelers we meet, Lufthansa Magazine, June 1983
- ↑ Martin Giesen painting at Place des Martyrs, Beirut. Photo: Peter Pfleger, 1982
- ↑ Tarrab, Joseph. Voir et penser, L’Orient-Le Jour, Beirut, June 1, 1982
- ↑ http://www.saradarcollection.com/saradar-collection/english/art-writings?artistid=46
- ↑ https://www.slanted.de/slanted-in-dubai-martin-giesen/
- ↑ Robert Fisk, Beirut Stories, The Independent, June 17, 2001
- ↑ https://universes.art/en/nafas/articles/2004/aus-sad/zoom-giesen
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