Elmar Gille was born in Heiligenstadt, East Germany in 1947, but has been living in the Netherlands since 1979, when he took Dutch nationality.

After his education in Germany, he studied at the Koninklijke Academie voor Kunst en Vormgeving in Den Bosch. He has been exhibiting his work regularly, both at home and abroad since 1980.

Gille has developed his own engraving process. A layer of paint is applied to a wooden surface and he engraves his pictures in that layer. The resulting relief picks up the ink and produces a print. This technique enables him to work more freely and in a more picturesque way. Sometimes the result is rough, like a diluted oil painting, sometimes velvety, like an elaborate etching.

He describes his clear, colourful landscapes and interiors as "peaceful moments in a world constantly on the move".

Recent Exhibitions

Galerie De Witte Voet, Amsterdam

Grafiek 80, the Netherlands

Göttingen Arts Fair, Germany

Prints Today Holland USA, various American cities

Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Russina Images Ltd, International Arts, Sewickley, USA

Künstlerzentrum Lübeck, Germany

Linea Art Fair, Gent, Belgium

Bassano and Vicenza, Italy

Singer Museum, the Netherlands

Galerie Aelbrecht, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Galerie Grafiker, Haarlem, the Netherlands

Galerie Petit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Museum Waterland, Purmerend, the Netherlands

Galerie Anna Pualowna, Soest, the Netherlands

Gemeentemuseum De Wieger, Duerne, the Netherlands

Graphic art by Dutch artists from the years 1980 - 1990, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Collections which possess works by Elmar Gille:

Nederlandse Kunstinrichting, Amsterdam

Dienst Esthetische Vormgeving of the PTT

Amro-bank

Rabo-bank

NMB-bank

Katholiek Universiteit, Nijmegen

Nederlse Spoowegen

Open Universiteit Heerlen

Department of Public Prosecution, Amsterdam

City of Rotterdam

Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven

Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht

Central Museum, Utrecht

Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam

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