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Ziesenis and Zieseniss artists and personalities in European countries

Zieseniss artists and family in France


The French Zieseniss family has two art collectors, father Otto Zieseniss (1865-1938) and his son Charles Otto Zieseniss (1915-2000), who was also an art historian and Napoleon expert, and two female artists, the painter France Zieseniss (1944-2015) and the sculptor Patricia Zieseniss (*1946). In the function of cultural attaché and patron, Jérôme Zieseniss (*1949) works in the field of monument protection in the field of art as well.

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Ziesenis artists and family in the Netherlands


Aside the artist family Ziesenis in Amsterdam no other considerable artist named Ziesenis is known in the Netherlands. Accordingly an other section is dedicated to the Dutch members of the artist family Ziesenis including artists related to them.

The Dutch artist family Ziesenis (18th to 19th century)


The Dutch part of the artist family Ziesenis comprises sculptors, architects, draugthsmen and landscape painters.


Anthonie Zisenis (1731-1801) and his wife Johanna Ruloffs, the progenitors of the artist family Ziesenis in the city of Amsterdam, brought up three sons and two daughters. The eldest son Bartholomeus Wilhelmus Henricus Ziesenis (1768-1820) became architect and master builder in royal and states service in the Netherlands. His second wife Johanna Cornelia Wattier (1762-1827) was the most famous Dutch actress at that time; his grandson Carl Eduard Ahrendts (1822-1898) became a landscape painter in The Hague.


Anthonie's second son Jan Christian Ziesenis (1770-1799) was a talented draughtsman and should have followed his father as sculptor, if he would have lived longer. Finally the youngest son Reinier Ziesenis (1776-1818), illustrator and engraver in the beginning, finished his father's works before becomming assistant to the city master builder Abraham van der Hart (1747-1820) till the end of his life. His son Reinier Anthonij Christiaan Ziesenis (1807-1871) painted watercolour landscapes while working as clockmaker.

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Related artists in the Netherlands (18th to 19th century)


Through his marriage Anthonie Ziesenis became related with the musician family Ruloffs originating from the Rhine-city Kleve, particularly with Bartholomeus Ruloffs (1741-1801), who worked as organist at all churches of Amsterdam and had been master of the Schouwburg-orchestra, the largest orchestra of the town.


The two daughters of Anthonie Zisenis were educated in the art of music and married with the pianist Johann Philipp Ferdinand Högg (±1759-1820) and the solo cellist Johann Georg Rauppe (1762-1814). The first daughter of Reinier Ziesenis married the organist Gerardus Hendricus Kalshoven (1809-1872), who was related to the painter family Kalshoven of which Eduard Charles Louis Kalshoven (1836-1911) is commonly known.


Through the family of Johanna Cornelia Wattier the Ziesenis family became related with the actor family Bingley and the painter family Hoedt. The most famous members thereof were the actors Ward Bingley (1757-1818) and Jan Hendrik Hoedt (1779-1846).

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