Adolf Niess

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Gustav Adolf Friedrich Niess (born October 1, 1824 in Leer (East Friesland) , † February 26, 1863 in Hildesheim ) was a German painter and drawing teacher.

Life

Adolf Nieß, son of a lieutenant , graduated from the court school and the high school in Hanover. From Michaelis 1839 to Easter 1842 he was a student with the city architect August Heinrich Andreae and at the higher trade school in Hanover. From 1842 to 1846 he studied at the art academy in Dresden , in 1847 at the one in Düsseldorf , where he was a student of Karl Ferdinand's son .

After a trip through Holland, he returned to Hanover, where he lived as a portrait painter and teacher at various schools. He had been working at the school teachers' seminar since February 1848, since 1851 at the Neustädter Knabenschule , from 1851 to 1857 at the Stadttöchterschule , from 1853 to 1862 at the secondary school for girls, from 1855 to 1862 at the secondary school and since 1856 as a teacher for free hand drawing the polytechnic school , where he was permanently employed in 1858.

In 1848 he exhibited a genre painting at the exhibition of the Kunstverein Hannover .

literature

  • Adolf Tellkampf : The higher bourgeois school in Hanover described by the director of the institution on the occasion of the celebration of its 25th anniversary on October 9, 1860 . Friedrich Culemann, Hanover 1860, p. 115.
  • Catalogus professorum 1831–1981 (= Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover, Vol. 2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-17-007321-4 , p. 215 (with portrait).

Web links

  • Letter from Adolf Nieß to Carl Oesterley senior , Düsseldorf January 12, 1847, Leipzig University Library, Kestner autograph collection, signature collection Kestner / IV / 73 / no. 12

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Mundhenke (edit.): The matriculation of the higher industrial school, the polytechnic school and the technical university in Hanover . Vol. 1: 1831-1881 . Hahn, Hannover 1988, ISBN 3-7848-2121-9 , p. 30 no.830.
  2. ^ Deutsches Kunstblatt 1, 1850, p. 96.
personal data
SURNAME Niess, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nieß, Gustav Adolf Friedrich (full name); Niess, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Leer (East Frisia)
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1863
Place of death Hildesheim