Louis Ziercke

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Louis Joseph Ziercke (born April 9, 1887 in Bad Godesberg ; † February 26, 1945 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

The Ziercke family came from Parchim in Mecklenburg . Around 1900 the parents built a house at Brunnenallee 8 in Bad Godesberg. Between 1898 and 1901 Ziercke attended the Royal High School in Bonn. From 1902 to 1907 he was enrolled at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . In 1903 Peter Behrens took over the management of the School of Applied Arts and Ziercke took, after pre-school, first the specialist class for decorative painting with Ignaz Wagner (1854-1917). In 1904 he switched from decorative painting to the newly established specialist class for surface and graphic art by Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke . He became a member of the Der Ring association and played a key role in the design of the Ring magazine, which was supported by teachers and students at the Kunstgewerbeschule . In 1907 he attended Moritz Heimann's private painting school in Munich , then in 1907 and 1908 he worked in the architecture office of Peter Behrens in Neubabelsberg and then returned to the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts until 1909. In the summer of 1909 he briefly ran a joint architecture studio in Godesberg with his former partner at the Fritz Kaldenbach School of Applied Arts . From 1910 to 1914 he studied in Berlin, a. a. with Lovis Corinth , and in February 1914 settled again in Godesberg. From 1914 he served as a soldier in World War I until he became unfit for military service in 1916. After the end of the war he worked as a teacher for freehand drawing at the advanced training school in Godesberg and then worked as a painter and commercial artist in Godesberg from 1923 to 1944 . During the inflationary period he created numerous designs for emergency money bills for the city of Godesberg (10 and 25 pfennig values were realized).

From July to October 1944, Ziercke was drafted into the Volkssturm and fell seriously ill there. He finally died in February 1945.

Pützborn (1932)

Ziercke was a member of the artist group Der Block in Berlin, a member of the Westmark artists' association and - as the first artist from Godesberg - a member of the German Werkbund from 1912 at the latest . An important customer and sponsor was the quilt and flag manufacturer Otto Müller from Bad Godesberg.

Work (selection)

Exhibitions

1906: III. German art exhibition, Dresden

1912: Exhibition by the Berlin artist group Der Block , Künstlerhaus Berlin

1917: Exhibition of modern graphics in the City Museum Villa Obernier , Bonn

1920: Annual exhibition of the Bonn Artists' Association 1914 , City Museum Villa Obernier , Bonn

1920: First exhibition of the Godesberger Künstlerbund , Redoute, Godesberg

1920: Exhibition of the Godesberger Künstlerbund , Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren

1920: Art exhibition in Godesberg , Atelier van den Driesch

1921–1931: Exhibition of the Bonn Artists' Association 1914 in the City Museum Villa Obernier , Bonn

1921 in June, the second exhibition of the Godesberg Artists Association in the Stollwerck House in Godesberg

1921: Three Rhenish painters , Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren

1921: Romantic exhibition in the City Museum Villa Obernier , Bonn

1922: Annual exhibition of the Bonn Artists' Association in 1914 in the Obernier Museum

1922: Exhibition Künstlerbund Westmark Berlin Künstlerhaus

1921–1925: Exhibitions by the Künstlerbund Westmark in Koblenz , Trier and Bad Kreuznach

1922: Special exhibition in the Schafgans Bonn studio
1926: Christmas exhibition in the City Museum Villa Obernier
1927: Exhibition in the business premises of the Godesberger Zeitung
1928: in December, art exhibition in the Stollwerckhaus Bad Godesberg
1930: Christmas exhibition of the Bonn Artists' Association 1914 , in the City Museum Villa Obernier

1931: Louis Ziercke special exhibition in the Kleinschmidt Art Salon in Bonn

1932: Special exhibition in the City Museum Villa Obernier

1933: Exhibition of the Bonn artists in the City Museum Villa Obernier

1933: Exhibition of Young Bonn Artists in the Suermondt Museum in Aachen

1936: Christmas exhibition of Bonn artists in the Obernier Museum

1940: Exhibition in Kaiserstraße Bonn, the group of three Louis Ziercke, Helmut Ludewig and Hans Dürrbeck

1940: Exhibition of three Rhenish painters in Geldern

1941: Three Rhenish painters in the Remscheid Museum of Local History

1983: The generation of the forgotten , Bad Godesberg adult education center

1988: At that time in Godesberg , exhibition in Bonn-Bad Godesberg

2003: Louis Ziercke the rediscovery , special exhibition of the Peter-Schwingen-Gesellschaft, house on the Redoute in Bonn-Bad Godesberg

2003: Special exhibition by Louis Ziercke at the Kunsthaus Schweitzer in Bonn-Bad Godesberg

2004: Special exhibition by Louis Ziercke at the Kunsthaus Schweitzer in Bonn-Bad Godesberg.

2004: Exhibition Louis Ziercke in Haus Bachem in Königswinter, as part of the art days.

2006: Louis Ziercke in the Eifel , Forum Daun

2006–2008: Traveling exhibition of the Westmark Artists' Association from 1921

2007: Louis Ziercke visits Friedrich Karl Ströher , large special exhibition in the Hunsrück Museum Simmern .

2007: Expressive realism in the Rhineland , house on the Redoute in Bonn-Bad Godesberg

2009: Bonner Künstlervereinigung 1914 , memory of the annual exhibitions from 1920 to 1931, Städtisches Museum Villa Obernier, Bonn

2010: Reifferscheid, Ströher, Ziercke - drawings, graphics, watercolors , house on the Redoute, Bonn-Bad Godesberg

2010: Rough beauty, the Eifel and Ardennes in the eyes of the artists , City Museum Simeonstift Trier

2012: Ludwig and Louis Ziercke, back to the roots after Parchim, graphics and paintings from 1910 to 1932 , Parchim City Museum

Others

1935: Bad Godesberg, Friesdorfer Straße 1, Lindenwirtin clubhouse , decoration of the "Rhineland Hall" with Rhine motifs

literature

Horst Heidermann : Louis Ziercke (1887–1945): Painter on the Rhine . Rheinlandia-Verlag, Siegburg, 2004, ISBN 3-935005-78-4

Web links

Commons : Louis Ziercke - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Website about the life and work of Ziercke
Louis Ziercke (1887–1945), detailed artist profile , on "Treffpunkt Kunst" (treffpunkt-kunst.net)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Horst Heidermann: 100 years of the Deutscher Werkbund: Godesberg traces. In: Godesberger Heimatblätter , issue 44/2006, ISSN 0436-1024 , pp. 77–119 (here: pp. 78–85).

personal data
SURNAME	Ziercke, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ziercke, Louis Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	bad Godesberg
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 1945
Place of death	bad Godesberg

[Heidermann2006-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Horst Heidermann: 100 years of the Deutscher Werkbund: Godesberg traces. In: Godesberger Heimatblätter , issue 44/2006, ISSN 0436-1024 , pp. 77–119 (here: pp. 78–85).