1942     Born in Stolp, Pomerania. Grew up in Hamburg, Germany,
         where his grandfather, an art professor at the Academy
         of Trade and Commerce, impressed his young grandson with
         his many drawings, precise and exact.

1962-67  Studied at Hamburg's Fine Arts Academy where etching
         first attracted him under the tutelage of his mentor,
         Paul Wunderlich.

1966-73  Honed his prodigious drawing skills during summer
         holidays with the University of Missouri's archeological
         team working in Israel and Greece as their recording
         artist of excavated artifacts.



1968-71  Moved to Kyoto in Japan for graduate studies and
         research at the Kyoto City Fine Art Academy, and a
         two year teaching stint at the city's International
         Design Institute.

1972-78  Returned to Hamburg, first as a tutor, and then as
         lecturer in printmaking at the Hamburg Fine Art Academy.

1976     First journey to Australia as Visiting Fellow at the
         Humanities and Research Center of the Australian
         National University in Canberra.

1977     Visiting Artist at Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts &
         Design, Jerusalem.

1978     Appointed head of the Printmaking Workshop of the
         Australian National University's Canberra School of Art
         where he remains today.

1982     Journeyed through China, Japan, and the United States,
         lecturing at the Central Academy of Arts in Beijing,
         Harvard University, and Princeton.

1984-85  Commissioned by the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Cologne
         along with photographer Jaroslav Poncar to journey into
         the isolated state of Ladakh in the Himalayas of
         Northern India to produce a series of prints and
         photographs for an exhibition and book on the region
         which was published in 1985.

1988     Artist in Residence at the College of Advanced Education
         in Perth.

1989     Visiting Professor at the Kyoto Seika University in
         Japan.



1993     Artist in Residence at the Zheljiang Academy of Fine
         Art in Hangzhau, Tasmania, and Visiting Lecturer at the
         Center for the Arts, University of Tasmania, in Hobart.

1997     While this German expatriate artist continues on his
         peripatetic journey, so too have his prints. To quote
         Pat Gilmour, they "have been exhibited from Bangkok to
         Beirut, from Cologne to Chicago, from Hangzhou to
         Wildesheim, from Kobe to Karlsruhe, from Memphis to
         Melbourne, from London to St. Louis, from New York to
         New Delhi, from Princeton to Perth, from San Francisco
         to Sydney, and from Thessalonica to Toronto."

         And now his prints are on exhibition at Georgetown,
         where Jörg Schmeisser will deliver a lecture on
         November 12th at 7:30pm in the University's
         Intercultural Center Auditorium with a reception
         following (phone 202- 687-5300 for reservations), and
         will visit with our students, faculty, and friends in
         the Fairchild Gallery on November 16th, 3-5pm (no  
         reservations needed).

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