CISSARZ, Johann Vincenz
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.