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{{AFC comment|1=In particular, it would help if you put references after each paragraph (how to [[WP:REPEATCITE|use the same citation multiple times]]). [[User:BuySomeApples|BuySomeApples]] ([[User talk:BuySomeApples|talk]]) 06:40, 4 December 2023 (UTC)}}

{{AFC comment|1=This seems like a solid article and a notable subject but I feel like the sourcing needs to be improved, this isn't really a solid basis for a page. [[User:BuySomeApples|BuySomeApples]] ([[User talk:BuySomeApples|talk]]) 06:35, 4 December 2023 (UTC)}}

{{AFC comment|1=Please note that "An exchange of letters" is NOT a suitable source neither is " List by Anneliese Zeileis, the daughter of Alfons Zeileis." sources need to be published. [[User:Theroadislong|Theroadislong]] ([[User talk:Theroadislong|talk]]) 15:41, 22 November 2023 (UTC)}}

{{AFC comment|1=Almost all of the sources used here are primary sources - archival documents, etc. We need sources that establish ''notability'': significant coverage in secondary sources. [[User:Asilvering|asilvering]] ([[User talk:Asilvering|talk]]) 14:43, 22 November 2023 (UTC)}}

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[[File:Alfons Zeileis 1936.jpg|thumb|the painter Alfons Zeileis 1936]]
[[File:Alfons Zeileis 1936.jpg|thumb|the painter Alfons Zeileis 1936]]
Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Alfons Zeileis]]; see its history for attribution.
Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Alfons Zeileis]]; see its history for attribution.


'''Alfons Zeileis''' (* July, 31 [[1887]] in [[Hafenlohr]]; † [[25. März|March, 25,]] [[1963]] in [[Neustadt an der Weinstraße]])<ref>Deutsche Biographie [https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd1078930295.html]</ref> was a German painter and art teacher. He was best known for his paintings from the Munich area and the southern Palatinate. He mainly painted in the Impressionist and Expressionist styles.
'''Alfons Zeileis''' (* July, 31 [[1887]] in [[Hafenlohr]]; † [[25. März|March, 25,]] [[1963]] in [[Neustadt an der Weinstraße]]):<ref>Deutsche Biographie [https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd1078930295.html]</ref> was a German painter and art teacher. He was best known for his paintings from the Munich area and the southern Palatinate. He mainly painted in the Impressionist and Expressionist styles.
As a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich ([[Akademie der Bildenden Künste München|Akademie der Bildenden Künste]]), he received numerous awards and participated in joint exhibitions as a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Künstler <ref>Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Künstler [https://www.apk-kunst.net/]</ref>, an organisation of Palatinate Artists.
As a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich ([[Akademie der Bildenden Künste München|Akademie der Bildenden Künste]]), he received numerous awards and participated in joint exhibitions as a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Künstler <ref>Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Künstler [https://www.apk-kunst.net/]</ref>, an organisation of Palatinate Artists.
As a secondary school teacher at the Realanstalt am Donnersberg today and teacher at the Humanist Gymnasium zu Neustadt, today Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium Neustadt, he worked as a teacher for many years.{{cn}}
As a secondary school teacher at the Realanstalt am Donnersberg today and teacher at the Humanist Gymnasium zu Neustadt, today Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium Neustadt, he worked as a teacher for many years.{{cn}}
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Alfons Zeileis continued to attract attention long after his death<ref>Andenken an den Kunstlehrer in Newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 29 October 1988</ref><ref>Ausstellung über Alfons Zeileis in Newspaper Stadtanzeiger 26 May 1988</ref><ref>Vorschau: Alfons Zeileis im Dokumentationszentrum, Engagierter Pfalzmaler in Newspaper Rheinpfalz 08 June 1988</ref><ref>Alfons Zeileis im Dokumentationszentrum: Belege lebendigen Sehens in Newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 13 July 1988</ref><ref>Maler bewußten Sehens in newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 1 June 1989</ref><ref name="anneliese">Natur und Landschaft die großen Themen in newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 2 June 1990</ref><ref>Natur in mystischem Licht in newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 4 June 1991</ref><ref>Bilder von Alfons Zeileis in Newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 07 October 1991</ref><ref>Auf der Fährte politisierender Kunsterzieher in newspaper Haardter Rundschau 29 October 1993</ref><ref>175 Jahre Kunsterziehung am KRG in newspaper Stadt-Anzeiger 04 November 1993</ref> .
Alfons Zeileis continued to attract attention long after his death<ref>Andenken an den Kunstlehrer in Newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 29 October 1988</ref><ref>Ausstellung über Alfons Zeileis in Newspaper Stadtanzeiger 26 May 1988</ref><ref>Vorschau: Alfons Zeileis im Dokumentationszentrum, Engagierter Pfalzmaler in Newspaper Rheinpfalz 08 June 1988</ref><ref>Alfons Zeileis im Dokumentationszentrum: Belege lebendigen Sehens in Newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 13 July 1988</ref><ref>Maler bewußten Sehens in newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 1 June 1989</ref><ref name="anneliese">Natur und Landschaft die großen Themen in newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 2 June 1990</ref><ref>Natur in mystischem Licht in newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 4 June 1991</ref><ref>Bilder von Alfons Zeileis in Newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 07 October 1991</ref><ref>Auf der Fährte politisierender Kunsterzieher in newspaper Haardter Rundschau 29 October 1993</ref><ref>175 Jahre Kunsterziehung am KRG in newspaper Stadt-Anzeiger 04 November 1993</ref> .
Ursula Biffar wrote about the exhibition of paintings by Alfons Zeileis in Hambach at the beginning of June 1989 <ref> the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz of 1 June 1989</ref>:
Ursula Biffar wrote about the exhibition of paintings by Alfons Zeileis in Hambach at the beginning of June 1989 <ref> the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz of 1 June 1989</ref>
'The works exhibited here are predominantly late works with an expressive sense of colour present in his younger years. Bright shades of green, subdued with blue but with a different luminous effect, bright reds and yellows in a lavish distribution of colourfulness, tell of the vision and sense of colour of his later years.
'The works exhibited here are predominantly late works with an expressive sense of colour present in his younger years. Bright shades of green, subdued with blue but with a different luminous effect, bright reds and yellows in a lavish distribution of colourfulness, tell of the vision and sense of colour of his later years.
Zeileis was a master of perspective and of conveying wide and deep space. His landscapes are lost in the wide horizon. For him, nature also came to life through clouds; his skies are always moving, whether bright or in a melancholy, gloomy mood, such as the tree painting from his early years. Colour is always an equally important medium of expression alongside form. It carries the effect in the still life with apples as well as in the portrait or the forest detail. It does so all the more in the crucifixion scene from 1983, which is characterised by a strong reference to Expressionist visual styles.'
Zeileis was a master of perspective and of conveying wide and deep space. His landscapes are lost in the wide horizon. For him, nature also came to life through clouds; his skies are always moving, whether bright or in a melancholy, gloomy mood, such as the tree painting from his early years. Colour is always an equally important medium of expression alongside form. It carries the effect in the still life with apples as well as in the portrait or the forest detail. It does so all the more in the crucifixion scene from 1983, which is characterised by a strong reference to Expressionist visual styles.'


Ursula Biffar wrote about the exhibition in Bad Dürkheim in June 1991 <ref>the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz on 4 June 1991</ref>
Ursula Biffar wrote about the exhibition in Bad Dürkheim in June 1991<ref>the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz on 4 June 1991</ref>
'The first years of his artistic orientation seem to have been characterised by the expressionist orientations of the artists' colony "Dachauer Moos". At that time, he gained decisive experiences that shaped his future artistic work. He consolidated his inclination towards strong, expressive colouring, which never left him, even if - as his floral still lifes or the watercolour "Zigeunerfels" from 1950 show - he reduced the colours in impressionistic style and paid more attention to the reflecting light. Zeileis was connected to nature in an almost mystical way, to the landscape in its vastness or density, to the lush blooms on the doorstep. [...] His pictures are prime examples of orderly composition, of masterly composition. This architecture is characteristic of his best paintings. In every work, the powerfully contoured line is decisive, corresponding with the colour in equal tonal strength. His expressionist gesture intensified in his final years, when he turned to a strong colour palette. Bold colour combinations created a lively surface with a strong long-distance effect.'
'The first years of his artistic orientation seem to have been characterised by the expressionist orientations of the artists' colony "Dachauer Moos". At that time, he gained decisive experiences that shaped his future artistic work. He consolidated his inclination towards strong, expressive colouring, which never left him, even if - as his floral still lifes or the watercolour "Zigeunerfels" from 1950 show - he reduced the colours in impressionistic style and paid more attention to the reflecting light. Zeileis was connected to nature in an almost mystical way, to the landscape in its vastness or density, to the lush blooms on the doorstep. [...] His pictures are prime examples of orderly composition, of masterly composition. This architecture is characteristic of his best paintings. In every work, the powerfully contoured line is decisive, corresponding with the colour in equal tonal strength. His expressionist gesture intensified in his final years, when he turned to a strong colour palette. Bold colour combinations created a lively surface with a strong long-distance effect.'


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the painter Alfons Zeileis 1936

Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at de:Alfons Zeileis; see its history for attribution.

Alfons Zeileis (* July, 31 1887 in Hafenlohr; † March, 25, 1963 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße):[1] was a German painter and art teacher. He was best known for his paintings from the Munich area and the southern Palatinate. He mainly painted in the Impressionist and Expressionist styles. As a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Akademie der Bildenden Künste), he received numerous awards and participated in joint exhibitions as a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Künstler [2], an organisation of Palatinate Artists. As a secondary school teacher at the Realanstalt am Donnersberg today and teacher at the Humanist Gymnasium zu Neustadt, today Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium Neustadt, he worked as a teacher for many years.[citation needed]

After his death, his daughter supported exhibitions of his paintings.[3] [4]

Life

In the Vollmer Künstlerlexikon, his birthplace is named as "Hasenlohr"[5]. This is a reading error in Fraktur script. Alfons Zeileis was born in Hafenlohr as the son of Mr August Zeileis, Royal Post and Railway Expeditor, and Maria Zeileis, née Lutz.[6]

From 1897 to 1904 he attended the humanistic grammar school in Würzburg and from 1904 to 1906 the School of Arts and Crafts in Nuremberg, today the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. From 1906 to 1908 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (Akademie der Bildenden Künste) and graduated in 1908. [7] His fellow students in the painting class of Gabriel von Hackl were among others the Italian Painter Giorgio de Chirico[8], the Greek Painter Markos Zavitsianos [9] and the austrian painter Karl von Blaas[10]. He continued his studies at the academy until 1914 and financed himself with small scholarships and commissions.[6] He attended the drawing class with Gabriel von Hackl, the painting class with Carl von Marr and Ludwig von Herterich and the composing class with Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl

Confirmation of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for 8 semesters of study
Confirmation of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich

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Alfons Zeileis received the following honours at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich:

  • 19 July 1907: honourable mention for drawing studies
19 July 1907: honourable mention for Alfons Zeileis drawing studies
  • 10 January 1911: second prize for surrogate picture
10 January 1911: second prize for Alfons Zeileis surrogate picture
  • 16 July 1914: honourable mention for painting studies
16 July 1914: honourable mention for Alfons Zeileis painting studies
  • 17 January 1914: honorable mention for his "Group from the Flood"
17 January 1914: honorable mention for Alfons Zeileis "Group from the Flood"

Alfons Zeileis volunteered for the First World War in 1914. After spending time in various military hospitals, his military service was already over in 1916. In the summer of 1916, Alfons Zeileis was appointed as a drawing teacher at the "Realanstalt am Donnersberg", today's Gymnasium Weierhof. During his time in Marnheim in the Palatinate, Alfons Zeileis met his partner and wife Elisabeth in 1918.[6]

After the war, he worked as an assistant at the Progymnasium Homburg and then as a teacher at the Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium Neustadt an der Weinstraße. As a member of the Palatinate Artists' Association (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Künstler), he took part in numerous exhibitions from 1926 to 1930, which are listed on the German Wikipedia page de:Alfons Zeileis. In 1932 he moved to Hambach an der Weinstraße and in 1939 became a professor of studies at the Humanistische Gymnasium in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. In 1941, at the "Great German Art Exhibition" in Munich, the paintings submitted were not exhibited but classified as "degenerate art", confiscated by the police and not returned.[3] During the Second World War, his house was confiscated and he had to live in various emergency shelters before returning to Neustadt on the Hambacher Höhe in 1951 and moving back into his own house in Hambach in 1955. Despite his difficult living situation, he took part in exhibitions organised by the Palatinate Artists' Working Group again from 1948. A list can be found on the German Wikipedia de:Alfons Zeileis. Alfons Zeileis died on 25 March 1963 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, just a few days after his wife. After his death, several exhibitions of his works were organised. A list can be found on the German Wikipedia de:Alfons Zeileis.

Reception

During his lifetime, Alfons Zeileis exhibited his paintings together with other well-known Palatinate artists such as Hans Purrmann, Otto Dill, Albert Weisgerber, de:Hermann Croissant and de:August Croissant. In the German Wikipedia for Alfons Zeileis de:Alfons Zeileis 13 newspaper articles are cited as proof</ref>. Even at that time, he stood out alongside these painters. On 18 October 1927, for example, the Rheinpfälzer wrote about the art exhibition in Landau: "The talented Alfons Zeileis would get lost in the Kokoschkaian confusion with his painting Stubaital." The references on the German Wikipedia de:Alfons Zeileis show the exhibitions where he is mentioned by name in reviews alongside other well-known artists.

Alfons Zeileis continued to attract attention long after his death[11][12][13][14][15][4][16][17][18][19] . Ursula Biffar wrote about the exhibition of paintings by Alfons Zeileis in Hambach at the beginning of June 1989 [20] 'The works exhibited here are predominantly late works with an expressive sense of colour present in his younger years. Bright shades of green, subdued with blue but with a different luminous effect, bright reds and yellows in a lavish distribution of colourfulness, tell of the vision and sense of colour of his later years. Zeileis was a master of perspective and of conveying wide and deep space. His landscapes are lost in the wide horizon. For him, nature also came to life through clouds; his skies are always moving, whether bright or in a melancholy, gloomy mood, such as the tree painting from his early years. Colour is always an equally important medium of expression alongside form. It carries the effect in the still life with apples as well as in the portrait or the forest detail. It does so all the more in the crucifixion scene from 1983, which is characterised by a strong reference to Expressionist visual styles.'

Ursula Biffar wrote about the exhibition in Bad Dürkheim in June 1991[21] 'The first years of his artistic orientation seem to have been characterised by the expressionist orientations of the artists' colony "Dachauer Moos". At that time, he gained decisive experiences that shaped his future artistic work. He consolidated his inclination towards strong, expressive colouring, which never left him, even if - as his floral still lifes or the watercolour "Zigeunerfels" from 1950 show - he reduced the colours in impressionistic style and paid more attention to the reflecting light. Zeileis was connected to nature in an almost mystical way, to the landscape in its vastness or density, to the lush blooms on the doorstep. [...] His pictures are prime examples of orderly composition, of masterly composition. This architecture is characteristic of his best paintings. In every work, the powerfully contoured line is decisive, corresponding with the colour in equal tonal strength. His expressionist gesture intensified in his final years, when he turned to a strong colour palette. Bold colour combinations created a lively surface with a strong long-distance effect.'

Under the heading 'A master of seeing, the painter Alfons Zeileis", Karl Ritter wrote in 1991[3] 'When looking at all of the painter's pictures, we feel very fortunate that Zeileis painted beyond all "isms". He painted what he saw, but he did not depict: "He made visible what his senses recognised in nature through the veil of his soul" (E.A.Poe)'

Paintings by the painter Alfons Zeileis in public ownership

  • Palatinate Evangelical Church: Portrait of Church President Fleischmann 1952 (oil)
  • Humanist grammar school in Neustadt (Weinstraße) (Kurfürst Ruprecht Gymnasium zu Neustadt (Weinstraße)): Portrait of Richard Wagner 1933 (oil).
  • Humanist grammar school in Neustadt (Weinstraße) (Kurfürst Ruprecht Gymnasium zu Neustadt (Weinstraße)): Self-portrait from 1917 (oil) Quarry near Hambach from 1935 (oil).
  • City of Dachau: Dachau Court Garden 1912 (oil), Upper Bavarian moor landscape 1912 (oil), Landscape with farmhouse 1913 (oil).
  • District Savings Bank (Kreissparkasse) Bad Dürkheim: View over Neustadt from the Vogelsang in 1927 (oil).
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alfons Zeileis.

Website about Alfons Zeileis, which shows details of his history and very large parts of his work.

References

  1. ^ Deutsche Biographie [1]
  2. ^ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Künstler [2]
  3. ^ a b c article of Ritter, Karl: Ein Meister des Sehens : der Maler Alfons Zeileis, In: Donnersberg-Jahrbuch.-14 (1991), pages 82–85.
  4. ^ a b Natur und Landschaft die großen Themen in newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 2 June 1990
  5. ^ Alfons Zeileis is mentioned in the Vollmer Künstlerlexikon, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Küstler des XX. Jahrhunderts. By Hans Vollmer 6 volumes with a total of approx. 3000 pages. E.A.Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1953-1958.
  6. ^ a b c The information on the curriculum vitae is based on the article by Karl Ritter: Ein Meister des Sehens: der Maler Alfons Zeileis published in Donnersberg Jahrbuch - 14 (1991), pages 82-85 ISBN 3-926306-04-1 and on Newspaper Die Rheinpfalz of 8 June 1988: Preview: Alfons Zeileis at the documentation centre by "ub".
  7. ^ Matriculation number Alfons Zeileis Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Retrieved on 28 April 2022.
  8. ^ Matriculation Giorgio de Chirico Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Retrieved on 28 April 2022.
  9. ^ Matriculation Markos Zavitsianos Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Retrieved on 28 April 2022.
  10. ^ Matriculation Karl von Blaas Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Retrieved on 28 April 2022.
  11. ^ Andenken an den Kunstlehrer in Newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 29 October 1988
  12. ^ Ausstellung über Alfons Zeileis in Newspaper Stadtanzeiger 26 May 1988
  13. ^ Vorschau: Alfons Zeileis im Dokumentationszentrum, Engagierter Pfalzmaler in Newspaper Rheinpfalz 08 June 1988
  14. ^ Alfons Zeileis im Dokumentationszentrum: Belege lebendigen Sehens in Newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 13 July 1988
  15. ^ Maler bewußten Sehens in newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 1 June 1989
  16. ^ Natur in mystischem Licht in newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 4 June 1991
  17. ^ Bilder von Alfons Zeileis in Newspaper Die Rheinpfalz 07 October 1991
  18. ^ Auf der Fährte politisierender Kunsterzieher in newspaper Haardter Rundschau 29 October 1993
  19. ^ 175 Jahre Kunsterziehung am KRG in newspaper Stadt-Anzeiger 04 November 1993
  20. ^ the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz of 1 June 1989
  21. ^ the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz on 4 June 1991
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