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The artist family Zieseniss in North Rhine Westphalia

Heinrich Friedrich Christoph Zieseniss (1845-1911), born by  Johann Heinrich Christoph Zieseniss (1812-1852?) and his wife Eleonore Giesecke in the region of Hanover, somehow came to Cologne where he married Anna Katharina Schmitz (1843-1908) in 1871. Of their children only the two youngest sons Christian Heinrich Zieseniss and Rudolf Heinrich Zieseniss are securly known.

Heinrich Zieseniss (1881-1966) was married two times and had four children, of which the youngest, Horst Wilhelm Reinhold Zieseniss (1922-2021), became father of the later architect and painter Wolfgang Zieseniss (*1947). Heinrich Zieseniss worked as decorative painter in Cologne and Dusseldorf and dedicated himself to aquarel painting during World War I and in the years after. He became the first teacher of his grandson Wolfgang.

Rudolf Zieseniss (1883-1959) had been married for three times, and had the son Gustav Raimund Zieseniss (*1909) with his first wife and the daughter Maria Luise (*1933) with his second wife. While Rudolf Zieseniss became a sculptor working in plaster, stone and bronze, his son Raimund became architect.

The homeland of this Zieseniss family was North Rhine Westphalia: Heinrich Zieseniss lived in Cologne, Dusseldorf and Kleve, his brother Rudolf mainly in Düsseldorf, architect Raimund Zieseniss in Düsseldorf, Neus and Wuppertal and Wolfgang Zieseniss mainly in Bedburg-Hau, close to Kleve.