Josef Niesen

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Josef Niesen (born January 8, 1963 in Bonn - Dransdorf ) is a German painter , graphic artist , author and publisher .

Life

Niesen attended the Institute for Training in Fine Arts and Art Therapy (IBKK) Bochum and the Free Art Academy Rhein / Ruhr in Essen. Since 1991 Niesen has been working as a freelance painter, graphic artist and author. From 1997 to 2008 he was a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK) Bonn, which he headed from 1999 to 2003 as Vice Chairman. From 2002 to 2008 he was a member of the artist group Semikolon .

After a surrealist phase and a long phase of abstraction , Niesen turned to landscape painting in recent years . His compositions are often large-format, leave room for the sky that fills the picture and often push the landscape itself to the bottom of the picture. He often uses the spatula technique. The art historian Rapp-Neumann writes: "With their difficult, subtle coloring, his pictures are a pleasure that not only visually but holistically appeals to and touches the viewer [...] His recent works are still characterized by compelling aesthetics, technical sophistication and subtle delicacy in color and shape. "

In his pictures, Niesen is often concerned with the confrontation between surface and line, exploring surfaces and leaving visible traces of creativity. His work is "impulsive, but by no means unbridled, spirited and disciplined".

His picture cycles Industrie und Stadt with large-format oil paintings of Bonn's Südstadt and the surrounding industries as well as reflections on Olivier Messiaen (1997) based on his organ composition Nativité du Seigneur received particular attention, also in the press .

For the cath. Parish church in Viersen-Bockert , Niesen created the altarpiece and two memorial plaques for the crypt of the Bonn Minster (for Theresia von Lisieux and for Pope Johannes XXIII. )

Niesen has been an author since 2006. In the same year his first book was the Bonner Personenlexikon (Bouvier-Verlag), a second edition in 2008 and a third, greatly expanded and improved edition in 2011. Since 2008, Niesen has also been writing articles for the Bonn history papers published by the Bonn City Archives and for the Rheinische Geschichte portal of the LVR Institute for Regional Studies and Regional History . In addition, he writes biographical articles for important lexical works such as the Biographisch-Bibliographische Kirchenlexikon (BBK), the Austrian Biographical Lexicon (ÖBL) published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the lexicon of persecuted musicians of the Nazi era , which is published by the research center of the University of Hamburg is published.

In 2017, Niesen founded the Bonn Buch Verlag with a focus on regional literature about Bonn and the Rhineland. He lives with his wife Anna Niesen in Bonn-Kessenich . The couple has been married since 2016.

Publications (selection)

  • Bonn Personal Lexicon. Bouvier, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03159-2 .
  • Gerhard von Are , provost of the St. Cassius Foundation in Bonn from 1124–1169 . In: Stadtarchiv Bonn (ed.), Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein, Volume 57/58, Bonn 2008, ISSN  0068-0052 .
  • Bonn Personal Lexicon. 2nd, improved edition, Bouvier, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-416-03180-6 .
  • Dietrich II. Von Moers, Elector and Archbishop (1385-1463), in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 31, Nordhausen 2010.
  • Gerhard von Are, Provost (around 1100-1169), in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 31, Nordhausen 2010.
  • Heinrich Ruster, Resister (1884-1942), in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 31, Nordhausen 2010.
  • Randolph von Breidbach-Bürresheim, Resister (1912-1945) , in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 32, Nordhausen 2011.
  • Bonn Personal Lexicon. 3rd, improved and expanded edition, Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 .
  • Georg Freiherr von Boeselager, Resister (1915-1944), in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 32, Nordhausen 2011.
  • Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, Resister (1917-2008), in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 32, Nordhausen 2011.
  • An unknown cityscape of Bonn from the 18th century . In: Stadtarchiv Bonn (Ed.), Bonner Geschichtsblätter, Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein, Volume 62/63, Bonn 2013, ISSN  0068-0052 .
  • Bonn monuments and their builders , Verlag Edition Lempertz, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-943883-52-7 .
  • Simcha Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Electoral Cologne (1734-1860) , in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 34, Nordhausen 2013.
  • Franz Bücheler, philologist (1837-1908), in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 34, Nordhausen 2013.
  • Emil Moses Cohn, rabbi and playwright (1881-1948), in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 34, Nordhausen 2013.
  • Caspar Anton Reichsgraf von der Heyden called Belderbusch, Prime Minister of the Electorate of Cologne (1722-1784) , in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 34, Nordhausen 2013.
  • Bonn in the mirror of music . In: Stadtarchiv Bonn (Ed.), Bonner Geschichtsblätter, Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein, Volume 64, Bonn 2014, ISSN  0068-0052 .
  • The first gas lamps light up , in: General-Anzeiger Bonn, February 25, 2016, p. 20.
  • Christian August Brandis, philosopher (1790-1867), in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 37, Nordhausen 2016.
  • Hermann Clemens Otto Deiters, musicologist (1833-1907), in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 37, Nordhausen 2016.
  • Kiss me last goodbye The life story of the hit writer Charles Amberg (1894-1946) between ascent and concentration camp imprisonment , Bonn BuchVerlag, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056023-1 .
  • Historic Bonn . A photographic tour with pictures from two centuries , Bonn BuchVerlag, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818821-0-0 .
  • Albert Hermann Küppers, sculptor (1842–1929), in: Portal Rhenish History, LVR Institute for Regional Studies and Regional History.
  • Friedrich Christian Diez, philologist (1794-1886) , in: Traugott Bautz (ed.), Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon Volume 38, Nordhausen 2017.
  • Charles Amberg, composer, librettist and songwriter (1894-1946), in: Lexicon of persecuted musicians of the Nazi era, Claudia Maurer Zenck a. a. (Ed.), University of Hamburg, Hamburg 2017.
  • On the north with the MS Lofoten. A Hurtigruten trip by mail ship along the Norwegian coast , Bonn BuchVerlag, Bonn 2018, ISBN 978-3-9818821-1-7 . (with Anna Niesen)
  • Hanns Heinz Ewers, writer, screenwriter and cabaret artist (1871–1943), in: Portal Rheinische Geschichte, LVR Institute for Regional Studies and Regional History.
  • Give me the last kiss goodbye, 2nd improved edition with new knowledge, Bonn BuchVerlag, Bonn 2018, 978-3-9818821-4-8.
  • Waldstein and Wartenberg (Waldstein-Wartenberg), Ferdinand Ernst Gf. von (1762-1823), religious, diplomat and patron , in: Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.), Austrian Biographical Lexicon (ÖBL), 1815-1950, Volume 15 (Lfg. 69), Vienna 2018.
  • Historical Siebengebirge. Old black and white and color views around the Drachenfels , Bonn BuchVerlag , Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-9818821-5-5 .
  • Historical Bonn - Volume 2. Early color views of Bonn, Beuel and Bad Godesberg , BonnBuchVerlag, Bonn 2019, 978-3-9818821-6-2.
  • Bönn's history and stories , BonnBuchVerlag, Bonn 2019, 978-3-9818821-3-1.

Literature / catalogs

  • Galerie Max 13 , catalog, Aachen 1994.
  • Industry and City , Catalog, Bonn 1996.
  • Rhineland '96 , catalog, 1996.
  • Rhineland '98 , catalog, 1998.
  • Artist directory of the city of Bonn 1997 , Bonn 1997.
  • Josef Niesen, a Bonn artist with format . In: Kabinett , 4-2000, Bonn 2000. Detailed portrait of the artist.
  • Janàcek , catalog, 2004.
  • Artist directory of the city of Bonn 2005 , Bonn 2005.
  • Semicolon 40 , catalog 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Rüdiger Franz: Town clerk with a passion for collecting . Josef Niesen is an artist, nurse and book author. His latest work is called "Bönn stories". In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) . January 25, 2020, p. 28 .
  2. ↑ a b Petra Rapp-Neumann. In: Kabinett magazine , autumn 2000 issue
  3. ↑ Bonn Personal Lexicon
  4. ↑ Josef Niesen; Anna Niesen: On the north trip with the MS Lofoten . Bonn BuchVerlag, Bonn 2018, ISBN 978-3-9818821-1-7 , p. 144 .
  5. ↑ BonnBuchVerlag , accessed on October 26, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Our authors. Bonn BuchVerlag, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sneeze, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn