Alois Hänisch

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Alois Hänisch (born March 31, 1866 in Vienna ; † October 24, 1937 there ) was an Austrian painter, lithographer and etcher.

After taking private drawing lessons with Ernst Juch , Hänisch studied from 1881 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Ludwig Minnigerode and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Christian Griepenkerl and Siegmund L'Allemand, and from April 22, 1885 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Nikolaus Gysis and Ludwig von Löfftz .

Hänisch made his debut in 1891 at the XX. Annual exhibition of the Vienna Künstlerhaus with the oil painting "Monastery Garden in Autumn".

Hänisch was a founding member of the Vienna Secession in 1897 and remained a member for life.

He showed his works at many art exhibitions: at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 , at the International Art Exhibitions in Munich in the Glaspalast in 1892 and 1905, in Dresden in 1901, Rome in 1911, Amsterdam in 1912, Düsseldorf in 1913 and “Hundred Years of Austrian Art” in Zurich in 1918.

literature

  • Ulrich Thieme / Felix Becker [ed.]: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. 37 volumes. Leipzig: Engelmann 1907–1950 vol. 15
  • Robert Weissenberger: The Vienna Secession. Vienna [u. a.]: Jugend & Volk 1971, p. 260
  • Saur 1999-2000, Vol. 4, p. 494

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