4088 - Eckhard Kempin, Seated Girl

Eckhard Kempin, Seated Girl A girl seated on a chair, facing left, gazing straight ahead with a serious expression; post-expressionist style, impasto technique, oil on wooden panel, signed and dated 1971 in the lower left-hand corner, on the reverse, the artist’s stamp and two old exhibition labels, titled ‘Portrait of a Girl’ on the latter, unevenly cut painting panel, original frame, inner dimensions approx. 52 x 45.5 cm. Artist information: German painter, graphic artist and commercial artist (born in Neu-Schönwalde in 1941), trained as a commercial artist from 1958 to 1961, studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Kettner and Professor Mrorczinski from 1968 to 1973, freelance from 1973, member of the VBK (Association of Visual Artists) of the GDR from 1976, also working as a restorer since 1980, has lived in Radebeul since 1998; sources: Eisold, ‘Artists in the GDR’ and the internet.