Alfons Zeileis

After his death, his daughter supported exhibitions of his paintings.

In the Vollmer Künstlerlexikon, his birthplace is named as "Hasenlohr". 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. 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. His fellow students in the painting class of Gabriel von Hackl were among others the Italian Painter Giorgio de Chirico, the Greek Painter Markos Zavitsianos and the austrian painter Karl von Blaas. He continued his studies at the academy until 1914 and financed himself with small scholarships and commissions. 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:de:Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl • Illustration — Confirmation of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich Alfons Zeileis was active in the Dachau Artists' Colony in 1907, 1908, 1911 and 1913. In 1913, Alfons Zeileis took part in a collective exhibition at the Neuer Kunstsalon at Königinstraße 44 in Munich. In addition to Alfons Zeileis:de:Egon Adler (painter), who was close to Der Blaue Reiter, the Rhineland Expressionist Carlo Mense, the graphic artist Walter Rehn and the American painter Albert Bloch, who was also close to Der Blaue Reiter, took part in this exhibition. 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. 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. 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 March 25, 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.

Alfons Zeileis left behind an extensive body of work in his estate. Here some examples: • Illustration — 1903 Inner city idyll, Watercolour, 31x16 cm • Illustration — 1906 Silhouette 1 ca. 40x27 cm • Illustration — Gentleman with medal, Charcoal, 1908, ca. 52x40 cm • Illustration — Landscape at river Amper, 1912, Oil, ca. 80x100 cm • Illustration — Waterfall without location, 1912, Oil, 101x81 cm • Illustration — Study of a Woman, 1916, Oil print, ca. 24x20 cm • Illustration — Landscape sketch, 1916, Oil, ca. 39x49 cm • Illustration — Self-Portrait, 1920, Oil, ca. 48x38 cm • Illustration — Anneliese Zeileis, daughter of the artist, 1926, Oil, ca. 79x64 cm • Illustration — Stubaital, 1926, Oil, ca. 79x64 cm • Illustration — Landscape on Lake Lucerne, 1927, Oil, ca. 98x79 cm • Illustration — Forest lake with red figure, 1927, Oil, ca. 64x79 cm • Illustration — Fraueninsel, 1928, Tempera, ca. 67x47 • Illustration — Neustadt corner Sauterstraße-Lindenstraße, 1929, oil, ca. 48x38 cm • Illustration — Bouquet of dahlias with artist in the background, 1935, Oil, 79x64 cm • Illustration — Crucifixus, 1938, Oil, ca. 71x52 cm • Illustration — Forest interior,1945, Oil, ca. 97x67 cm • Illustration — Steep forest path in Längstal, 1949, watercolor, ca. 36x28 cm • Illustration — View of street in Hambach, 1955, Oil, ca. 62x35 cm • Illustration — Blooming magnolia, 1955, Oil, ca. 95x66 cm • Illustration — Resurrection II, 1956, Oil, 98x79 cm

• 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).