Albert Hennig

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Albert Hennig (born December 7, 1907 in Leipzig ; † August 14, 1998 in Zwickau ) was a German artist from the Bauhaus tradition. He is assigned to the group The Lost Generation .

Life

Albert Hennig was born in 1907 into a working-class family and grew up in the Kleinzschocher district of Leipzig . He trained as a concrete worker and joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) in 1923 and the SPD in 1928. Having become unemployed in 1929, he self-taught began to take photos with a Zeiss Ikonta 6 × 9 cm. He applied for a series of admissions to the Bauhaus in Dessau and was accepted in 1932. The motifs and style of the photographs are close to the social documentary workers' photography movement of the Weimar Republic, with which Hennig also maintained active contact in Leipzig.

His teachers in Dessau and after the closure by the newly elected reactionary government of Anhalt in mid-1932 in Berlin were: Josef Albers (preliminary course), Walter Peterhans (photography), Hinnerk Scheper , Joost Schmidt , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee .

His photo series “Children of the Street” commissioned by the social democratic child friends movement was destroyed by the National Socialists in 1933 when the SPD office in Leipzig was occupied . He himself was conscripted as a construction worker from 1934 to 1945. After the war he became a founding member of the group “visual artists” in the Kulturbund Zwickau . In 1952, due to differences with the GDR cultural policy, he was forced to work again until 1972. From then on he devoted himself exclusively to painting.

In 2008, the community of heirs handed over the extensive and extraordinary artistic estate of Albert Hennig, consisting of 140 drawings, 2100 sketches and 20 sketchbooks as well as approx. 180 watercolors , 70 pastels and monotypes , but also woodcuts on paper and fabric in many variants and prints to the art collections Zwickau. A bundle of archive materials, photos, catalogs, magazines, invitation cards, reviews and important documents such as lecture notes and testimonials from Hennig's Bauhaus period from 1932 to 1933 and letters from artist friends, for example from his fellow Bauhaus student Carl Marx or the Gersdorf painter Heinz Tetzner , complete the work from the estate. The Zwickau art collections have thus received extensive material from this important Zwickau artist. On the west gallery of the art collection is, in changing exhibitions presented the work of Albert Hennig the "Year of the graphics" from 2009.

Part of the artist's photographic estate, which consists of photographs (especially the original vintage prints), roll film and glass plate negatives and other rare negatives from the Bauhaus era, has already been acquired through funding from the Free State of Saxony Cultural Foundation .

Prices

Solo exhibitions

  • Leipzig, Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, Hamburg, Wiesbaden, Cologne, Graz, Dresden, Basel, Zurich, Zwickau, Chemnitz and Rottach-Egern, as well as in group exhibitions on the Bauhaus theme.

literature

  • Gisela Schulz (ed.): Albert Hennig, watercolors and pastels. On the occasion of the 85th birthday of the Bauhausler and friend of our gallery. Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig 1992. (Exhibition catalog, November 28 - December 19, 1992, Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig).
  • Peter Hochel (ed.): Albert Hennig. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-89466-213-1
  • Karsten Krupp (text), Gisela Schulz (ed.): Albert Hennig, the tables. For the 90th birthday of the Bauhaus member. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-9805299-9-1 (exhibition catalog, October 11 - November 29, 1997, Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig).
  • Wolfgang Hesse (ed.): Albert Hennig, 1907–1998; Photographs 1928–1933. Wolfgang Hesse. Kunstsammlungen, Zwickau 2007, ISBN 978-3-933282-29-3 (On the occasion of the exhibition on the 100th birthday of Albert Hennig, November 30, 2007 - January 20, 2008).
  • Albert Henning, a life in pictures. Kunstverein, Zwickau 2007, ISBN 978-3-933282-28-6 (catalog accompanying the exhibitions on the occasion of the 100th birthday).
  • A. Albert: Hennig, Albert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 72, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023177-9 , p. 1 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Hennig, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Bauhaus artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1998
Place of death Zwickau