Johann Georg Ziesenis the Younger

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Self-portrait of the artist in the clothes of the Moravian Brethren ; around the 1740s

Johann Georg Ziesenis the Elder J. (* 1716 in Copenhagen ; † March 4, 1776 in Hanover ) was a German portrait painter. He comes from a family of artisans and artists of the 17th and 18th centuries, whose works are attributed to the Hanoverian Rococo .

Life

Self-portrait of the court painter in front of an easel with a portrait of a woman;
from the provenance of Guelph , in the 1920s in Herrenhausen Palace located

Johann Georg Ziesenis the Younger was the son of the painter Johann Georg Ziesenis the Elder (also: Jürgen Ziesenis (* around 1681 as the son of the kit maker and writing schoolmaster Dietrich Ziesenis († March 20, 1748 in Copenhagen)) and father of the painter Maria Elisabeth Ziesenis He was the cousin of Johann Friedrich Blasius Ziesenis .

Half-length portrait of King Friedrich II of Prussia, painted by Johann Georg Ziesenis in 1763, in Blankenburg Castle (Harz) until 1945

After receiving drawing lessons from his father, who was a portrait painter from Hanover, Ziesenis lived in Düsseldorf , where he painted several portraits of the electoral family.

On August 26, 1760, Zieseniss was electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg court painter in succession to the deceased Johann Franz Lüders and received an annual salary of 500 Reichstalern - in line with his previously recognized status as a portraitist .

Works

Prince Ferdinand of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , painted by Johann Georg Ziesenis in 1762/66

Johann Georg Ziesenis created around 260 portraits as well as other paintings and sketches in the course of his life.

In the summer of 1937 an exhibition took place in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover under the theme of Hanover's Rococo , at which numerous of his works were shown.

On behalf of Duchess Philippine Charlotte von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , the sister of King Friedrich II of Prussia , he had the opportunity to make a portrait of the regent from June 17 to 20, 1763 at Salzdahlum Castle . Whether it was the only painting the king modeled during his reign, as the painter Jean Lulvès claimed in 1913, is doubted today. Like other portraitists, Ziesenis had to be content with sketches that he made after meeting the king. It is not a realistic, but a polished, idealized portrait. The duchess, the English king and Frederick's nieces each received a copy of this. One of the first copies made by Ziesenis himself is now in the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg . On October 10, 2009, the probably original original, which was last presented to the public in 1937, was offered at auction by the Bremen auction house Bolland & Marotz and auctioned off at a price of 670,000 euros. Due to the historical significance of the picture, the entry in the register of German cultural assets was initiated. In addition to the copies, various copies of the picture have since been found, such as a painting supplemented to the knee picture, which Ziesenis delivered to Count Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode in April 1764 .

Works by Ziesenis, the younger, are owned by, among others:

literature

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. ^ Hugo Thielen : Ziesenis, (2) Johann Friedrich Blasius. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 690; also there: Ziesenis, (3) Johann Georg, dJ ; also there: Ziesenis, (4) Maria Elisabeth .
  3. ↑ Alheidis von Rohr : The Hanoverian cattle market on the Klagesmarkt in front of the Steintor, painted around 1745 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 61 (2007), pp. 139–143; here: p. 143
  4. ↑ Jean Lulvès: The only credible portrait of Frederick the Great as king . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1913.
  5. ↑ Karin Schrader: The portrait painter Johann Georg Ziesenis (1717–1776). Life and work with a critical oeuvre catalog . Lit-Verlag, Münster 1995, p. 110.
  6. ↑ Frauke Mankartz: The Friedrich brand: The Prussian King in a contemporary image. In: General Directorate of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (Hrsg.): Friederisiko. Frederick the Great. The exhibition . Hirmer, Munich 2012, p. 206.

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personal data
SURNAME Ziesenis, Johann Georg the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1776
Place of death Hanover