Elisabeth Ziesenis

Elisabeth Ziesenis (full name Maria Elisabeth Ziesenis , married lamp; born July 26, 1744 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 24, 1796 in Hanover ) was a German portrait painter . She comes from a family of artisans and artists of the 17th and 18th centuries, whose works are attributed to the Hanoverian Rococo .

Life

Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia

Ziesenis was the first child of the painter Johann Georg Ziesenis the Younger and was related to a family of artisans and artists known mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries, including Johann Friedrich Blasius Ziesenis . In addition, she was related to the Hanoverian sculptor Johann Conrad Ziesenis .

She spent the first years of her life in her native city of Frankfurt am Main. She moved with her parents to Mannheim in 1749 and finally to Hanover in 1761.

She was a student and assistant and, after her mother's death in 1771, until his mother's death in 1776, she was also the housekeeper and carer of her father. In the same year she married the court and regimental surgeon Johan (n) Bodo Lampe (1738-1802) on September 24th . After around ten years of marriage, she gave birth to a daughter at the age of 42.

Works

Like her father, Ziesenis specialized in portrait painting. Because of her numerous miniature paintings she remained known to this day. Some of her works are owned by the Lower Saxony State Museum and the Historical Museum on the Hohe Ufer .

literature

Zisenis, Maria Elisabeth . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 495 .
Helmut Zimmermann : The painter Elisabeth Ziesenis. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Neue Episode 14, 1960, pp. 143-148.
Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. - Significant women of Hanover. Biographical portraits. Hanover 1991, p. 263.
Alheidis von Rohr : father and daughter Ziesenis. In: Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV (Hrsg.): Heimatland. Journal for local history, nature conservation, cultural care. 1983, pp. 40-44.
Hugo Thielen : Ziesenis, (4) Maria Elisabeth. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein u. a. (Ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 690.
Hanoverian Rococo. Johann Friedrich, Johann Georg, Elisabeth Zisenis. Exhibition in the Hanover State Museum, summer 1937. Hanover State Museum, Hanover 1937.
Neil Jeffares: Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 . 2006 ( pastellists.com PDF).

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Ziesenis - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Elisabeth Ziesenis in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hugo Thielen : Ziesenis, (4) Maria Elisabeth, m. Lamp. in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . Pp. 398–399 (excerpt, books.google.de )
^ Hannoversches Rococo. Johann Friedrich, Johann Georg, Elisabeth Zisenis. Exhibition in the Hanover State Museum, summer 1937. Hanover State Museum, Hanover 1937.
↑ Miniature painted on ivory by Elisabeth Ziesenis after Johann Georg Ziesenis the Younger , 11 × 7.2 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collection

personal data
SURNAME	Ziesenis, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ziesenis, Maria Elisabeth; Lamp, Elisabeth; Lamp, Maria Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	August 24, 1796
Place of death	Hanover

[HBL-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hugo Thielen : Ziesenis, (4) Maria Elisabeth, m. Lamp. in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . Pp. 398–399 (excerpt, books.google.de )

[2] Hannoversches Rococo. Johann Friedrich, Johann Georg, Elisabeth Zisenis. Exhibition in the Hanover State Museum, summer 1937. Hanover State Museum, Hanover 1937.

[3] Miniature painted on ivory by Elisabeth Ziesenis after Johann Georg Ziesenis the Younger , 11 × 7.2 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collection