CISSARZ, Johann Vincenz

(b. 1873 Danzig, d. 1942 Frankfurt)

German painter, graphic artist, and glass designer. In 1895-96, Cissarz was a master pupil of the Belgian history painter Ferdinand Pauwels (1830-1904) at the Academy in Dresden. After completing his studies, he won commissions for posters and book illustrations, and from 1898 onwards was a designer at the Dresdner Werkstatten für Handwerkskunst (Dresden Workshops for Handicraft).

In 1903, he was appointed to the artists’ colony in Darmstadt, where he was active in the fields of interior design and applied art. After his departure in 1906, he took up a teaching post in book design at the Teaching and Experimental Workshops attached to the School of Arts and Crafts in Stuttgart, and from 1916 to 1940, ran the painting master class at the School of Arts and Crafts in Frankfurt.

Book illustration

This is an illustration to a book by Ferdinand Avenarius (1856-1923): “Wander und Werden - Erste Gedichte” (Wander and Becoming - First Poems), published in 1898.

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Poster

The poster announcing the second exhibition by the artists’ colony on the Mathildenh�he, Darmstadt, 1904, was printed by Friedrich Schoembs, a printing and publishing house in Offenbach am Main, Germany. It was founded by Friedrich Schoembs (1832–1879).

In the artists’ colony, Cissarz was chiefly active in the spheres of painting and graphics.

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Württ. Kriegsausstellung, 1916 Stuttgart Mai-September

The poster announces a war exhibit organized by the W�rttenberg Red Cross and presented under the auspices of the King and Queen and the Royal W�rttenberg War Ministry. It shows a sword, with an eagle perched on the hilt, plunged into a mound of earth. Below, a man plows the earth and a woman sows seeds. In the background are flames and smoke from factories.

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