Ib Eisner (19 May 1925 in Copenhagen, Denmark – 7 April 2003 in Frederiksberg, Denmark) was a Danish artist.
His artistic career started in 1945 later entering the Copenhagen Academy of Arts, where he studied in the classes of the Professors Kræsten Iversen (1886–1955), Olaf Rude (1886–1957) and Axel Jørgensen (1890–1963).
In the upfront fifties he discovered characteristic motif cycles, which were to influence everything of his work. From then upon he mostly devoted himself to painting scenes from his quick surroundings, which he transferred directly onto canvas upon site. Eisner showed particular captivation in the long-established Danish tree-plant park “Dyrehaven”, which offered the painter a wide repertoire of motifs for years. He along with was curious in motifs of the popular amusement parks “Tivoli” and “Bakken” as capably as in scenes from his personal surroundings in Frederiksberg and views of the island of Bornholm. Other pictographic themes which were constant factors in Eisner’s paintings are nevertheless life and the Danish traditional “Sankt Hans Fire”.
Ib Eisner worked mostly in picture series to scrutinize the nuances of changes of lighting moods and seasons. French Impressionist theme and composition techniques are noticeable not unaided in his preferred method of operation, the plein-air painting, which from this point on the artist applied in anything weather conditions, but also in the treatment and application of colour. These alternate between the fluent, almost subjective application of colour bearing in mind thinned oil paints and a paste-like, relieflike flow, deliberately bothersome to appearance the artistic facture. Eisner applied pure, mostly unmixed colours against each other in Fast brushstrokes, creating a lively structure of adept tones and developing an original picture-intrinsic dynamic. He painted mostly without resolution contour lines or preparatory drawings, since the capturing of elusive lighting effects required active work. With these painting tools, the player created a unique tell characteristic to each picture.
Ib Eisner’s works were purchased by art relationships for the publicity of fine arts as skillfully as banks and companies in Denmark, Norway and Sweden and by private collectors. His international nod is evident through the sale of his paintings to Germany, Sweden, Japan, Great Britain and the United States.
Weilbach – Dansk Kunstnerleksikon, ed. Philip Weilbach, Bd. 2, Copenhagen, 1994
Saur – Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 33, München 2002
Stefanie Hegyaljai, The painted Oeuvre of the Danish Artist Ib Eisner / Das malerische Werk des dänischen Künstlers Ib Eisner, ed. von DRICON Managing Consultants AG, Frankfurt am Main 2006
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