Johann Georg Ziesenis

Johann Georg Ziesenis D. J. (* 1716 in Copenhagen, † March 4, 1776 in Hannover ) was a German portrait painter. He comes from a significant artisan and artist family of the 17th and 18th centuries, whose works are attributed in part to the Hanoverian Rococo.

Family

Johann Georg Ziesenis the Younger was the son of the painter Johann Georg Ziesenis, the Elder ( also: Jürgen Ziesenis (* 1681, son of the stuff maker and write schoolmaster Dietrich Ziesenis († March 20, 1748 in Copenhagen) ) and father of the painter Maria Elisabeth Ziesenis. He was the cousin of Johann Friedrich Blasius Ziesenis.

Life

After he had received drawing lessons from his father, who was a native of Hanover, a portrait painter, Ziesenis lived in Dusseldorf, where he painted several portraits of the royal family lived. In 1760 he became court painter in Hanover ( Electorate of Brunswick- Lüneburg).

Works

Johann Georg Ziesenis created during his life around 260 portraits and other paintings and sketches.

In the summer of 1937, an exhibition in the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover was held under the theme Hannoversches Rococo, have been shown in many of his works.

On behalf of Philippine Duchess Charlotte of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel, the sister of King Frederick II of Prussia, he had occasion to make in the period from 17 to 20 June 1763 Castle Salzdahlum a portrait of the regent. It is the only painting that has been designed during the reign Wedding of King 's life. From this screen, each the Duchess, the English King and Frederick nieces received a copy. One of the first self-made copies of Ziesenis is now in Heidelberg Palatinate Museum. On October 10, 2009, the probable original stock, which had been recently presented to the public in 1937, offered by Bremer auction house Bolland & Marotz at auction and auctioned at a price of 670,000 euros. Due to the historical significance of the image registration was initiated in the directory German heritage. In addition to the copies of different copies of the image have now been established as a knee image supplemented painting Ziesenis in April 1764 to Count Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg - Wernigerode delivered.

Works by Ziesenis, the Younger, as reflected in the possession of:

• Statens Museum for Kunst
• Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover