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Ziesenis artists and related people in Germany


Germany is the place where people named Ziesenis and the artist family Ziesenis were born. Accordingly this section is mainly dedicated to the German members of the artist family Ziesenis including artists related to them. Further this section refers to later German Ziesenis artists.

The German artist family Ziesenis (17th to 18th century)


The German artist family Ziesenis consisted of painters and sculptors.


Dietrich Zisenis (±1645-1698), the progenitor of the artist family Ziesenis in the city of Hannover, brought up four sons of which the third, called Johann Jürgen Ziesenis (1680-1748), became painter and worked at the royal court at Copenhagen. He had nine children of which Johann Georg Ziesenis (1716-1776) and Christian Friedrich Ziesenis (1729-1792) lived as painters in Germany. Other painters of he German artist family Ziesenis have been Maria Elisabeth Ziesenis (1744-1796), who worked with her father Johann Georg Ziesenis , and Heinrich Dietrich Kruse (1676-1733), a son-in-law of Dietrich Ziesenis . In an unknown way, the decorative painter Ludwig Ziesenis (17..-17..) is also part of the family.


The sculptors of the Ziesenis family were Dietrich's first son Johann Conrad Ziesenis (1671-1727), his youngest son Johann Heinrich Ludwig Ziesenis (1686-1765) and the later court sculptor in Hannover Johann Friedrich Ziesenis (1715-1787), son of Johann Heinrich Ludwig Ziesenis .


How Anthonie Ziesenis (1731-1801) the city sculptor of Amsterdam and progenitor of the Dutch part of the artist family Ziesenis is related to them, is still unclear.

Related artists in Germany (17th to 19th century)


Through his second wife and mother of his children, Dietrich Zisenis became related to the Lohmann family of tinware makers of which the Hanoverian sculptor Johann Heinrich Lohmann (1650-1693) became teacher of his eldest son Johann Conrad Ziesenis. A nephew of his grandson Johann Friedrich Ziesenis was the draughtsman Christoph Heinrich Kniep (1755-1825) who accompanied the famous Goethe on his trip through Sicily.


Johann Wilhelm Ziesenis (±1762-1809), a presumable son of Christian Friedrich Ziesenis, established a late unknown family of painters in Bremen. An elder brother of his wife, the stone-mason and sculptor Andreas Beling, had been pupil and assistant of the Dutch city sculptor Anthonie Ziesenis for about nine years.

Other Ziesenis artists in Germany (19th to 20th century)


Aside the artist family Ziesenis several other men named Ziesenis or Zieseniss became painters or sculptors in later times. Since the knowledge of their lifes and works is rare or lacking, information to these artists is still subject to research.

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