About Alfons Zeileis
Alfons Zeileis (* 31 July 1887 in Hafenlohr, + 25 March 1963 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße) was a recognised artist of his time. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, one of the most important art academies in Germany, was active in the Dachau artists' colony and the Blauer Reiter movement and took part in numerous exhibitions organised by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Künstler together with Hans Purrmann and Otto Dill, among others.
He became known mainly for his paintings of the area around Munich and the southern Palatinate, which he painted in the style of Impressionism and Expressionism. In 1941, Alfons Zeileis submitted paintings for the Great German Art Exhibition. They were destroyed as degenerate art. Alfons Zeileis worked as an art teacher at the Humanistic Grammar School in Neustadt for many years. Exhibitions of his paintings were held until 1991, even after his death. Follow me on Youtube for details of this exciting artist's life
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Alfons Zeileis is still relevant today
The photographer Johanna Hurter, who photographed his entire oeuvre, combines Alfons Zeileis' pictures with photos of the time and her works. In doing so, she creates a new context in a very respectful way.
In this picture, Johanna Hurter combined a photo of Alfons Zeileis' wife, Elisabeth, with daughter Anneliese and cousin Wilhelm with a painting of daughter Anneliese and a photo of a very old oak tree in Stuttgart, which daughter Anneliese knew.
This image entitled "Beloved ancesters - A Window to the Past" was honoured with a nomination in the Professional Photomanipulation category at the prestigious FAPA Awards.
Alfons Zeileis in numbers
Alfons Zeileis left behind an extensive body of work that has received high recognition over many years.
Awards of the Acad. of Fine Arts
Proven exhibitions during his lifetime
Posthumous exhibitions
Paintings in public ownership
Alfons Zeileis
Artist
Elisabeth Zeileis
Wife of Alfons Zeileis
Anneliese Zeileis
Daughter of Alfons and Elisabeth Zeileis
Johanna Nägelsbach
Grandniece of Alfons Zeileis
Exhibition Reviews
Der Rheinpfälzer
We are in the pleasant position to be able to announce that in the Palatine Art Exhibition ... paintings of such qualities that one can speak of a Palatine painting. ... Zeileis is represented with an interesting Neustadt landscape.
Coburger Zeitung
With the current exhibition, which contains a collection of oil and tempera paintings, watercolours, drawings and graphics by the best-known Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Kunst - Speyer, the Kunstverein offers art products that are well worth seeing. ... The most prominent are Prof. Dill, H. Croissant, Willy Weber, A. Zeileis,...
Speierer Zeitung
The collective exhibition of Palatinate artists, scheduled for the second half of November, offers a very favourable overview of the diverse work of the working group and its good success. ... Willy Weber - Ludwigshafen has also created soft-toned open-air paintings with his Palatinate Farm and the view of the Speier Cathedral and Cathedral Garden, Alfons Zeileis a contrasting flower piece: Hyacinths. ...
Generalanzeiger
of peculiar charm is a very intensely coloured mountain landscape by the aforementioned Alfons Zeileis.
Der Rheinpfälzer
Whereas the artists we have discussed so far are in the middle of the Impressionist line in terms of style and are not very prominent in terms of personality, in Hermann Croissant we already have a painter's personality before us. While the gifted Alfons Zeileis ("Stubaital") strays into Kokoschkaian confusion, Croissant presents us with no less than 13 paintings of his intrinsically so calm and yet so strange way of art.
Inherited newspaper clipping
Zeileis shows three portraits, a self-portrait of great liveliness in character and expression, only larger than life, which is somewhat disturbing, and two portraits of girls, which are executed with great independence and individuality of colour.
Generalanzeiger
The landscapes by Willy Weber, Eugen Stoll, Rolf Müller, Eugen Croissant, Helmut Bekker, Alfons Zeileis, August Croissant, Hans Müller-Ries, Martin Lais and Ernst Pfau are a diverse and uniform expression of the artistic forces of our Palatinate.
Inherited newspaper clipping
Somewhat colourful, but boldly looked at and original as cut-outs are the tempera paintings by Alfons Zeileis.
Generalanzeiger
The literary and artistic part, under the direction of Leopold Reitz, who also wrote the text, is taken care of by director Lil Erik Hafgren, singing teacher Karl Feilke, the painters Professor Otto Dill, Studienrat Zeileis, Peter Koch, Doerner and Brechtel, who bring various works to the exhibition in booths.
Pfälzer Tageblatt
Of course, it is not possible for us to mention the 191 works by 61 artists here, let alone pay tribute to all of them. So we will only briefly mention the paintings and sculptures that particularly caught our eye during the tour.... Daniel Wohlgemuth with his colourful landscapes and Alfons Zeileis with his oil painting "Magnolia", which captivates us with its bright joyfulness.
Die Rheinpfalz
The two artists from Speyer, Karl Graf and Günther Zeuner, contrast the elegance of southern harbour scenes with the garishly coloured mountain world, and the darkly coloured "Park in Florence" by Robert Lauth from Ludwigshafen and the brightly coloured "Summer Garden" by Alfons Zeileis from Franconia, who lives in Hambach, are also of different temperaments.
Die Rheinpfalz
That the art teacher as a recognised painter also played a considerable role in the cultural scene of our city is strangely almost forgotten. That he was even a very committed painter of the Palatinate, whose pictures also largely have chronological value, becomes clear when one looks at his paintings.
Die Rheinpfalz
From Zeilei's earliest paintings from his grammar school days to those of the 74-year-old ... the exhibition reveals the emphatic artistic development. ... In the later works, he achieved an extremely great agility, above all through the mobile, short brushstrokes of the Impressionists, which was also supported not least by the expert exploitation of the cold-warm properties of the colours.
Donnersbergjahrbuch
The man and painter Zeileis had studied the art of painting with pencil and paint at a famous school of painting, the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the years around the turn of the century. He had become a master in his subject. ... Expressionism and Impressionism had impressed him and are also recognisable in his paintings. But his own style of painting, which grew out of himself, is impressionistic in its own right.