Leo Nyssen

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Leo Nyssen , also Leo Nijssen (born June 19, 1897 in Düsseldorf ; † October 13, 1945 there ), was a German landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Nyssen studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a master student of Eduard von Gebhardt and Julius Paul Junghanns . In 1928 he was a participant in the exhibition The Young Rhineland in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf . He toured the Netherlands in the 1930s . In 1936 the book Landscape of a City by the Essen journalist Karl Sabel was published with color reproductions of Nyssen's watercolors. In 1939 Nyssen lived in a studio in the Düsseldorf artists' house at Sittarder Strasse 5 . In 1941 he was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition .

literature

  • Nyssen, Leo . In: Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, Volume 6, p. 312.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter N , website of the FAUST database in the portal letter-stifung .de
  2. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  3. ^ Annual exhibition "The Young Rhineland", Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, October 1928 , website in the portal eifel-und-kunst.de , accessed on July 9, 2019
  4. ^ Wilhelm Sellmann: Essen Bibliography 1574–1960 . Volume 1 (1980), p. 27 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Nyssen, Leo . In: Address book of the city of Düsseldorf , 1939, part IV, p. 113 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Leo Nyssen (1897–1945) , website in the artist-info.com portal , accessed on July 9, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Nyssen, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nijssen, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1945
Place of death Dusseldorf