Johannes Niessen
Johannes Niessen (born August 27, 1821 in Cologne ; † August 23, 1910 there ) was a German history painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
From 1843 to 1847 Niessen was a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, among others with Eduard Risse , Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Joseph von Keller , where he appeared in 1846 with a rejection of Cordelia (after Shakespeare's King Lear ), along with the soon-to-be-followed Herodias with the head of St. John the Baptist aroused great expectations with regard to the coloring . After a brief stay in Paris , where he in the Louvre Entombment of Titian in a way copied , which bore witness to great understanding of Titian's coloring, he went in 1847 to Venice , where he worked for the Dusseldorf Academy, a copy of the famous Assumption of Mary by Titian made.
From Venice he went to Florence and Rome , returned to Düsseldorf in 1850 with extensive studies and painted various historical pictures. From 1855 to 1858 Johannes Niessen was a member of the Malkasten artists' association .
In 1859 he moved to Weimar , where he built and directed an act hall at the art school , but in 1866 he took up residence in Cologne , where he was professor and director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , whose arrangement and cataloging he made a great contribution. He was a member of the Vienna Academy .
For over 25 years he gave free art lessons to gifted but destitute students. At the age of sixty, the Catholic Niessen married the evangelical Emma Bensiek , twelve years younger from a Hamburg merchant family . At the age of seventy, a friendship began with the Protestant pastor in Cologne at the time, Ludwig Schneller , with whom he maintained a lively exchange about the content of the Bible .
literature
- Niessen, Johannes . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 469 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Niessen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Museums in Cologne - When the director was still drawing . Retrieved August 31, 2012
- Catalog of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne / by J. Niessen. - Cologne, 1869
- Johannes Niessen . Retrieved March 16, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ D. Ludwig Schneller: Shapes of light on my way. HG Wallmann, Leipzig 1937, p. 8
- ↑ D. Ludwig Schneller: Shapes of light on my way. HG Wallmann, Leipzig 1937, p. 9
- ↑ D. Ludwig Schneller: Shapes of light on my way. HG Wallmann, Leipzig 1937, pp. 12 + 17
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Niessen, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 23, 1910 |
| Place of death | Cologne |