Rudolf Zieseniss

Rudolf Zieseniss , also Ziesenis or Zieseniß (born May 4, 1883 in Cologne , † April 4, 1959 in Düsseldorf ), was a German sculptor and portrait painter .

Life

In 1902 Zieseniss was initially a student of Hermann Volz at the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule in Karlsruhe , then of Karl Janssen at the Düsseldorf Art Academy until 1911. As early as 1907, he received the order for a marble statue of the Apostle Paul for the basilica in Trier. He did military service in the First World War . Then he settled back in Düsseldorf, where he worked as a sculptor and portrait painter. On some of the works he cooperated with the architects Rudolf Wilhelm Verheyen and Julius Stobbe . A focus of his work were depictions from the life of miners, female nudes and portraits. On the Great German Art Exhibition 1941 in Munich he was with the work The plane W. represented.

Cenotaph of the 1st Westphalian Field Artillery Regiment No. 7 and bronze plate with a laurel wreath by Rudolf Christian Baisch for the fallen soldiers of the Artillery Regiment No. 26 in the Düsseldorf Court Garden (with Julius Stobbe and Conrad Peter Bergmann ), 1928
The last hand weaver , bronze sculpture on Hochdahler Strasse in Hilden , 1929
Wat am I a beautiful corpse! Relief on the corner of Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse and Bolkerstrasse in Düsseldorf's old town , 1956
Female nude, Schade Thörner grave, North Cemetery

literature

Zieseniss, Rudolf . 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.
Ziesenis, Rudolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Zieseniss - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Zieseniss, Rudolf , short biography in the portal stiftung-volmer.de
Rudolf Zieseniss , auction results on the portal artnet.de

Individual evidence

^ Ziesenis, Rudolf , artist search in the portal letter-stiftung.de ( Letter Foundation ), accessed on November 11, 2018.

↑ Adolf von Oechelhäuser : History of the grossh. Baden Academy of Fine Arts. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation on behalf of the Academy and with the support of the Grand Ducal Ministry of Justice, Culture and Education . G. Braunsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Karlsruhe 1904, p. 170.

↑ Great German Art Exhibition. Haus der Kunst, Munich 1941, p. 90 catalog no. 1330. (digitized version)

↑ Rolf Purpar: art city Dusseldorf. Objects and monuments in the cityscape. 2nd Edition. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-89978-044-4 , p. 39 (PDF)

personal data
SURNAME	Zieseniss, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zieseniß, Rudolf; Ziesenis, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 4, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	April 4th 1959
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Ziesenis, Rudolf , artist search in the portal letter-stiftung.de ( Letter Foundation ), accessed on November 11, 2018.

[2] Adolf von Oechelhäuser : History of the grossh. Baden Academy of Fine Arts. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation on behalf of the Academy and with the support of the Grand Ducal Ministry of Justice, Culture and Education . G. Braunsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Karlsruhe 1904, p. 170.

[3] Great German Art Exhibition. Haus der Kunst, Munich 1941, p. 90 catalog no. 1330. (digitized version)

[4] Rolf Purpar: art city Dusseldorf. Objects and monuments in the cityscape. 2nd Edition. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-89978-044-4 , p. 39 (PDF)