Erich Kissing

Erich Kissing is a German painter. He has a twin sister and a brother six years his senior. Their father worked as a plumber, and their mother was a housewife. He lives and works in the house his parents built in Leipzig in 1935.
Erich Kissing took private drawing classes. After training to retouch offset-prints, he studied art in Leipzig from 1965 to 1970. His studies at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst was under Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Werner Tübke. His modern art is a part of the Realist–Leipzig School movement.
Erich Kissing's painting sometimes uses glazing techniques. The painting consists of several layers. One of his motifs is hedonistic centaur. His painting Sommertag has a reference to Diego Velázquez's The Triumph of Bacchus.