Rita Geißler

Rita Geißler is a graphic artist and painter based in Dresden, Germany.

The focus of her work lies in printmaking. She works with various graphic techniques, some of which she has refined or further developed over time. Her motifs include landscapes, architecture and the human figure, rendered in a distinctive reductionist and abstract visual language.

With only a few lines and concentrated black surfaces on white paper, she constructs spaces and forms. Her works aim to reveal the inner structure and essence of the subject, reducing it to its core.

Rita Geißler developed her artistic language during her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden under Professor Gerhard Kettner. Her diploma thesis, a book of etchings based on poems by the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, received the award “Most Beautiful Book of the Year” at the Leipzig Book Fair.

Her work has been exhibited in Germany, Poland, Russia and the United States. She has held residencies at the Litografiska Akademin in Tidaholm, Sweden, and at Zygote Press in Cleveland, USA.

See GRAFIK and MALEREI for selected works.

Curriculum Vitae

2014
Work Scholarship, Zygote Press, Cleveland, USA

2010
Work Scholarship of the City of Dresden
Litografiska Akademin, Tidaholm, Sweden

2008
Otto Niemeyer-Holstein Scholarship

since 1990
Member of the Saxon Artists Association

1989
Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts Dresden
Thesis: Etchings on Poems by Anna Akhmatova
Awarded “Most Beautiful Book of the Year”, Leipzig Book Fair

1982 – 1989
Studies in Graphic Arts and Painting
Academy of Fine Arts Dresden
under Professor Gerhard Kettner

Lives and works in Dresden.

Selected Exhibitions (since 2013)

2015
GEDOK Berlin (group exhibition)

2014
Zygote Press, Cleveland, USA
Carl-Lohse-Gallery, Bischofswerda
Library of the Dresden State Art Collections
City Gallery Radebeul

2013
Saxon Government Presidium, Dresden
NSKV Exhibition, St. Petersburg (group exhibition)