Johann Georg Ziesenis

Johann Georg Ziesenis (born 1716 in Copenhagen; died 4 March 1776 in Hannover) was a German - Danish portrait painter.

After drawing lessons from his father, Ziesenis lived in Düsseldorf, where he painted several portraits of the royal family. In 1760 he became court painter at Hanover. Johann Georg Ziesenis created about 260 portraits and other paintings and sketches in the course of his life, including ones of Frederick II and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz^[1] (future wife of George III of the United Kingdom).

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• 2 Paintings by Johann Georg Ziesenis at the BBC Your Paintings site
• Arthur Herman Lier: Ziesenis, Johann Georg. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig, 1900, p 213
• Karin Schrader: The Ziesenis portrait painter Johann Georg (1716-1776) - Life and Work with a critical oeuvre catalog. Münster, Lit Verlag, 1995.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia, vol 10, p 660
• Johann Georg Ziesenis the Younger. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker among others: general lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 36, EA Seemann, Leipzig, 1947, p 497
• VC Hawk: The Art of Lower Saxony Circle, 1930, p 305-307
• Helmut Zimmermann: The painter Elisabeth Ziesenis in: Hannover historical music, New Series 14 (1960), pp. 143–148
• A. von Rohr: Father and daughter Ziesenis in: home country. Journal of History, Conservation, Cultural Care, ed. from Heimatbund Lower Saxony eV, Hanover 1905ff, here., 1983, pp. 40–44
• Landesmuseum Hannover: John Frederick, John George, Elizabeth Ziesenis: Hannoversches Rococo, exhibition publication, Hanover, 1937

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