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(1850); The Virgin and Magdalen (1852); Holy Family (1855); Christ appearing to the Magdalen (1861); St. Francis of Assisi receiving the Stigmata (1863); Ecce Homo (1864); St. Ann instructing the Virgin (1865); Departure from Bethlehem (1867); St. Peter healing the Lame (1868); Christ Entombed (1869); Broken Ears of Grain (1870); Ecstasy of St. Paul (1874); Glorification of St. Leonard (1875); Elizabeth of Hungary driven from her Palace (1877); St. Margaret of Scotland (1878); Flight into Egypt, Morning Dew (1879); Artist's Portrait (1880); Echo bewailing Narcissus (1881); Psyche, Biblis (1882); Slumber of St. Magdalen (1883).—Bellier, ii. 730; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 1041.
ZIERMANN, KARL, born in 1850, died
at Berka, near Weimar, Feb. 14, 1881.
Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Weimar
Art School under Gussow and Baur;
won at once reputation with his first picture,
exhibited in 1875, and was especially
successful in wood interiors, enlivened with
characteristic figures. Gold medal, Berlin,
1878. Works: Journeyman afraid of
Dog (1875); The Botanist (1878); Broken
Pitcher; At the Procession; Barred Passage;
Pinch of Snuff; The Caught Fowler;
Wood-Choppers.—Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 426;
xvii. 497; D. Rundschau, xvii. 313.
ZIESENIS, JOHANN GEORG, born at
Copenhagen in 1716, died at Hanover in
1777. German school; portrait painter,
pupil of his father; went to Düsseldorf,
and in 1764 became court painter to the
Elector of Hanover, in which capacity he
painted many German princes, among them
Frederick the Great. He took Hyacinthe
Rigaud for his model. Works: Portraits
of William V. of Orange (3), and his Wife,
Hague Museum; Male and Female Portrait,
Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Princesses
of Bavaria (4), Schleissheim Gallery.—Nagler,
xxii. 279; Weilbach, 766.
ZIMBRECHT. See Simbrecht.
ZIMMER, WILHELM, born at Apolda,
Saxe-Weimar, April 16, 1853. Genre painter,
pupil of Weimar Art School under
Kalckreuth and Hagen; has made a name
for himself with his humorous scenes from
village life, in which the peasant types are
very characteristic. Works: Unsuccessful
Sleigh Ride; Jolly Sleigh Ride; Sunday
Pleasure in the Country (1876); Potato Harvest
in Thuringia; Farm Yard in Thuringia;
The Departure (1880); On Furlough (1884);
Intermission (1885).—Müller, 573; Illustr.
Zeitg. (1875), i. 167; (1877), ii. 416; (1885),
i. 513; (1886), i. 481.
ZIMMERMANN, ALBERT, born at Zittau,
Saxony, Sept. 20, 1808. Landscape
painter, mostly self-taught; studied in Dresden
and Munich, became professor at the
Milan Academy in 1827, and at the Vienna
Academy in 1859. His landscapes, to a certain
degree ideal, show grand conception of
mountain scenery, masterly execution, and
powerful light effects. Member of Munich
and St. Petersburg Academies; Bavarian
Order of Michael. Works: Jewish Cemetery
(1834); Mountain Landscape with
Torrent, Rocky Landscape with Centaurs
and Leopards (1850), Landscape with Waterfall,
New Pinakothek, Munich; Faust
and Mephistopheles on the Brocken, Golgotha,
Schack Gallery, ib.; Chiem Lake in
Storm (1841); View in Tyrol after Storm,
do. in Bavarian Highlands, Städel Gallery,
Frankfort; Historical Landscape (with Fight
between Centaur Women and Lions, by
Rahl); Landslide, The High Göll, Morning
Dawn on the Gross Venediger, Partridge
Hunting, Sunset on Hintersee (1858); Prayer
of Miners (1861); View on Ammer Lake,
Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Afterglow on
Lake Piano (1863); Moonlight on the Weser,
The Stony Sea near Berchtesgaden; Lago
di Lugano (1869); Biblical Landscape
(1871); Spring Landscape with Sheep,
Dresden Museum; The Obersee near Berchtesgaden,
Stuttgart Museum; Lake Como,
R. L. Stuart, New York. His brother and
pupil, Maximilian (born at Zittau, July 7,
1811, died in Munich, Dec. 30, 1878), painted
landscapes in the style of Ruisdael. Works: