Johann Friedrich Ziesenis

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Johann Friedrich Blasius Ziesenis (baptized August 10, 1715 in Hanover ; † September 16, 1787 there ) was a German wood and stone sculptor . He comes from an important family of artisans and artists of the 17th and 18th centuries, whose works are attributed to the Hanoverian Rococo .

family

Johann Friedrich Blasius was the son of the Hanoverian sculptor Johann Heinrich Ludwig Ziesenis (born November 10, 1686 in Hanover, † July 7, 1765 there). He was the cousin of the painter Johann Georg Ziesenis the Elder. J. and related to his daughter Maria Elisabeth Ziesenis . Another ancestor was the Hanoverian sculptor Johann Conrad Ziesenis .

Life

Chronos is a personification of time in Greek mythology, since the 14th century he has also been considered the figure of death - depicted with a scythe and hourglass.
The epitaph originally stood in the Marktkirche Hanover, today in the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover. Chronos as a symbol of death or transience is accompanied by three putti who embody the past, present and future.

Johann Friedrich Blasius Ziesenis probably received his training as a sculptor from his father Johann Heinrich Ludwig Ziesenis (1686–1765) in Hanover. It is believed that he then worked in the workshop of the Hildesheim sculptor Ernst Dietrich Bartels . His third - and at the same time most important - teacher was certainly the Mannheim sculptor Paul Egell , who set up his altar of the 'Immaculate Conception' in Hildesheim Cathedral in 1731. Through his work in Bartels' workshop, he certainly had the opportunity to see Egell's work in the cathedral. So it can be assumed that he met him there and was able to continue learning from him. Based on stylistic peculiarities, one can assume that he went to Mannheim with Egell and continued his education there. Unfortunately, there are no written sources on this.

In 1743 Ziesenis created the alabaster figures on the altar of St. George's Chapel for Hildesheim Cathedral . For the Schnellen Graben, which was newly built in Hanover from 1742 to 1745, he formed a stone with a clover leaf coat of arms. In 1746 he created one of his main works - the epitaph for the landdrosten Johann Georg von dem Bussche.

In 1747 he was sent to Paris "to perfect himself (..) under the famous Bouchardon ..."

" Monument " designed by Johann Philipp Ganz and erected by Ziesenis in 1783 for Paul Gottlieb Werlhof on the St. Nikolai churchyard in front of Hanover ; Copper engraving (detail); Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen

In Hanover, Ziesenis created the pulpit of the Kreuzkirche in 1758 based on the design by Johann Paul Heumann and in 1759 the altar of the Neustädter Church . In the following years Ziesenis worked almost exclusively for churches. This was probably due to the fact that Hanover was ruled from London due to the personal union with England. Thus, although Ziesenis was appointed court sculptor around 1747, he hardly ever received an order from the court. In particular, he created pulpit altars in and around Hanover. In the last year of his life, 1787, he created a pulpit altar, a balustrade and a baptism for the Church of Our Lady in Neustadt am Rübenberge . What is special for us today is that we still have handwritten drawings of this work.

Other works

  • 1735: Pulpit altar in the St. Petrikirche in Göttingen-Grone
  • 1753: Sculpture of John the Baptist in St. Lamberti Church in Hildesheim , figure by Johann Friedrich Blasius Ziesenis
  • 1756: Altar of the church in Helstorf

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Friedrich Ziesenis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannoversches Rococo. Johann Friedrich, Johann Georg, Elisabeth Zisenis. Exhibition in the Hanover State Museum, summer 1937. Hanover State Museum, Hanover 1937.
  2. ^ Friedrich Bleibaum: picture carver families of the Hanoverian and Hildesheim baroque (= studies of art history ). Heitz, Strasbourg 1924, p. 236 ff.
  3. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Fast digging. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein u. a. (Ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover. From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 547 f.
  4. ^ Friedrich Bleibaum: picture carver families of the Hanoverian and Hildesheim baroque (= studies of art history ). Heitz, Strasbourg 1924, p. 241.
  5. ↑ Ulfried Müller: The design of the uniaxial pulpit altar by Johann Friedrich Blasius Ziesenis. In: Low German contributions to art history. Volume 11, 1972, pp. 155-164.
  6. ↑ Ina Birkenbeul: The sculpture John the Baptist with a baptismal bowl in the St. Lamberti Church, Hildesheim. Restorative investigation and creation of a treatment concept. Diploma thesis HAWK Hildesheim 2002 ( 193.175.110.9 summary).
personal data
SURNAME Ziesenis, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziesenis, Johann Friedrich Blasius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood and stone sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH baptized August 10, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1787
Place of death Hanover