PRESS
Painting on the USS Hornet
PRESS, BOOKS, MAGAZINES
- 2020: Fine Art Today newsletter.
- 2018: Berlin newspaper, "Berliner Zeitung". Exhibition at SANDAU&LEO Gallery.
- 2017: American Art Collector. Show Preview Article, "The Seasons".
- 2017: Article in Gazeta Yuga newspaper, Nalchik, Russia
- 2017: Plein Air Magazine online: "How the Seasons Change".
- 2017: "The Art of Plein Air Painting", Monacelli Press, by Stephen M. Doherty. Book (see pages here and here.
- 2016: Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, "Artists Making Their Mark".
- 2015: Southwest Art Magazine. Show Preview Article, "Under the Same Sun" at Gallery 1261.
- 2014: Press of the Russian Academy of Art "Selected Works of the Studio of V.S. Pesikov". Book.
- 2014: Monterey Herald, CA. Article about the Plein Air Convention. (Press clippings here and here).
- 2013: Feature in Southwest Art Magazin, WinterScenes.
- 2012: Article in Southwest Art Magazine.
- 2011: Article in PleinAir Magazine.
“Ulrich Gleiter is a citizen of the world. Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, he pursued his undergraduate studies at Dresden’s Academy of Fine Arts, where he learned to paint with the bold, colorful strokes handed down from the early 20th-century German expressionists. Students there prioritized their individuality — no one but you could have made this picture, they were told. Gleiter then absorbed a different view of artistry during his exchange year at Moscow’s Surikov Institute, followed by six more years at the Repin Institute in St. Petersburg.
Today Gleiter divides time between Germany, Russia, and the United States, where he has become much admired among plein-airists in such scenic places as Colorado, California, and Wyoming. In our era of diplomatic tensions, when Crimea and Russia appear regularly in the headlines, Gleiter feels a renewed appreciation for nature’s timelessness — for its inspiring capacity to rise above the ins-and-outs of man-made problems. Today, he says, “I often think about the history of an area where I am painting, about how many troubles and beautiful things may have happened there. Most importantly, I am humbled to observe how natural forces never stop moving.” Gleiter turns his searching eye not only to wilderness, but also to the banalities of urban life — to parked cars, the glinting sprawl of an automobile dealer’s lot, retail stores, and even cargo ships. There, too — as in his portraits, nudes, and still lifes — he manages to find abstracted beauty and emotional significance in the interactions of light, color, and air."
(by Peter Trippi, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, 01/2017)
Today Gleiter divides time between Germany, Russia, and the United States, where he has become much admired among plein-airists in such scenic places as Colorado, California, and Wyoming. In our era of diplomatic tensions, when Crimea and Russia appear regularly in the headlines, Gleiter feels a renewed appreciation for nature’s timelessness — for its inspiring capacity to rise above the ins-and-outs of man-made problems. Today, he says, “I often think about the history of an area where I am painting, about how many troubles and beautiful things may have happened there. Most importantly, I am humbled to observe how natural forces never stop moving.” Gleiter turns his searching eye not only to wilderness, but also to the banalities of urban life — to parked cars, the glinting sprawl of an automobile dealer’s lot, retail stores, and even cargo ships. There, too — as in his portraits, nudes, and still lifes — he manages to find abstracted beauty and emotional significance in the interactions of light, color, and air."
(by Peter Trippi, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, 01/2017)
