Albert Henrich
Albert Henrich (born June 19, 1899 in Düsseldorf ; † May 5, 1971 there ) was a German still life , landscape and portrait painter of the Düsseldorf School and the New Objectivity .
Life
Interrupted by military service in World War I , Henrich studied from 1913 to 1919 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Adolf Maennchen , Carl Ederer , Willy Spatz and Ludwig Keller . He went on study trips to North Africa, Italy, Spain, southern France and Greece and was a member of the "Gilde 1919" and the "Niederrhein Group". For his painting he received the Dürer Prize of the City of Nuremberg in 1931 and the Cornelius Prize of the City of Düsseldorf in 1942 . Later he was for many years chairman of the Düsseldorf “Künstlergruppe 1949”, of which he was one of the founders. He was friends with the painter Carl Cohnen .
Exhibitions (selection)
- from 1937: Exhibitions of the Society for the Promotion of the Düsseldorf Fine Arts , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf
- 1940: Rhenish Art Exhibition Berlin , Schönhausen Palace , Berlin
- 1942: The Rhine and the Reich. Düsseldorf art exhibition , Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum , Braunschweig
literature
- Ulrich Krempel (Ed.): In the beginning: The young Rhineland. On the art and contemporary history of a region 1918–1945 . Exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Claassen, Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-546-47771-5 , p. 327.
- Cultural Office of the City of Vienna: New Objectivity and Realism. Art between the wars . Vienna 1977, p. 195.
- Uwe M. Schneede : Realism between revolution and seizure of power, 1919–1933 . Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1971, p. 80.
Web links
- Albert Henrich , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Albert Henrich , Auction Results on artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henrich, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German still life, landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting and the New Objectivity |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th May 1971 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |