Jörg Ernert

Biography

1974	Born in Leipzig
1991-1996	Studies at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB), under Wolfram Ebersbach and Neo Rauch
1991-1996	Field classes in painting and graphic design with Prof. Sighard Gille, Diploma with Honours
1996	Freelance work as painter and graphic artist in Halle; construction of his own workshop
1998-2001	Postgraduate studies as Master Pupil at the HGB Leipzig with Prof. Sighard Gille
2000	Eduard Bargheer-Stiftung Scholarship
2001	Freistaat Sachsen Scholarship
Since 2004	Lectureship at the HGB, Leipzig in the Painting Faculty

Jörg Ernert (1974 - ) studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig under Ebersbach, Rauch and Gille. After graduating with honors in 1996, he became a master pupil. Since 2004 he has taught at the renowned art college. Ernert is often classified as a member of the New Leipzig School, as his career and artistic environment would suggest. Yet this is only true to a limited extend. Ernert develops and utilises a completely unique style of painting and he cannot be pigeonholed. Indeed, he now focuses artistically far more strongly on peinture than was customary in recent years. How is paint applied, how do the colour tones interrelate, in what way does the composition spread in the pictorial space? How can realistic painting be construed anew? These are the questions that interest the Leipzig painter. Ernert's approach seems incredibly fresh and authentic. His subjects may be the preferred motifs of the new Leipzig school (urban spaces, animated and dead places), but there is none of the surreal enigma and metaphorical nightmare setting that the school so prioritises. Jörg Ernert paints his own view of things: he is part of a new generation.