Erich Carl Kissing is a German painter known for his high-precision glazing technique.^[1] Erich Kissing was born on1943 in Leipzig, Germany. He has a twin sister and a brother six years his senior. Their father worked as a plumber and in other crafts and their mother was a housewife. Kissing lives and works in the house his parents built at Leipzig in 1935.

Erich Kissing's took private drawing classes to enhance his abilities. After training to professionally retouch offset-prints he turned to study art in his hometown Leipzig from 1965 till 1970. During his studies at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst under the hands of his teachers Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Werner Tübke he became a painter (Feinmalerei). His modern art is a part of the Realist Leipzig School.^{[citation needed]}

Erich Kissing is primarily known for his characteristic style of his paintings utilizing a high-precision glazing technique. This consists of several layers to complete a painting. Erich Kissing's themes are described as romantic, mystical and bizarre. He is also known to utilize themes associated with Realism. One of his memorable motifs is the recurring hedonistic centaur.

Among his works, "Sommertag" picture link (2007–09) is noticeable for its large format and reference to Diego Velázquez "The Triumph of Bacchus" ^[2] ("Los Borrachos", 1628–29).