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Artur Henne (born February 13, 1887 in Dresden , † February 19, 1963 in Liebstadt ) was a German painter .

Life

Henne was born the son of a Dresden court official and a Swiss woman from the Emmental . He grew up in middle-class and aristocratic circles and received artistic suggestions from his parents and their friends at an early age, which aroused in him the desire for an arts and crafts training. Henne began this in 1902 at the age of sixteen at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . After two years in an arts and crafts studio, he returned to the arts and crafts school in 1905, where he was among the students of the painter and restorer Ermenegildo Antonio Donadini for several semesters .

In 1908, Henne moved to the Dresden Art Academy . Here he continued his studies a. a. with Eugen Bracht , whose master student he was last. Bracht encouraged Henne in the main selection of his motifs, so that he developed into a landscape painter . Henne preferred to depict scenic cities, villages, fields and forests. In doing so, he developed a design style in the language of lyrical realism that was closely based on Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot's conception of landscape , but which in some cases exaggerated it into the immaterial, aesthetic and spiritual. Henne's paintings are atmospherically dense mood landscapes characterized by the play of light and shadow, which allow the viewer (and hen himself) an intimate and tangible contact with nature. The magic of the landscape was to be the subject that fascinated Henne until his death and that he took up again and again in his works.

Technically, Henne already turned to etching at the art academy , which he taught himself to a large extent as an autodidact and which he continued to perfect. In 1912, Henne left the art academy with a silver medal in her pocket. His first exhibition in an art shop on Prager Strasse followed just a year later. He appeared exclusively as an eraser.

In the following decades, Henne roamed the area around Dresden in search of motifs. In doing so, he discovered a preferred "painting area" in the Eastern Ore Mountains. The near-natural landscape, characterized by individual motifs full of character, with its sometimes far-reaching visual relationships, corresponded so closely to the painter's natural mood that he rented a small room and a studio in Liebstadt as a supplement to his Dresden apartment from 1942 . Henne also celebrated his birthdays in Liebstadt. This saved him from becoming a victim of the air raid on Dresden in 1945 . However, on the night of February 13, 1945, Henne lost his Dresden apartment with the workshop and most of his previous works. Among them were about 700 eraser plates.

Faced with such a new beginning, Henne decided to stay in Liebstadt. The choice of this small, tranquil town was not only explained by his love for the landscape of the Eastern Ore Mountains, but also corresponded to his calm nature. He is remembered by the people of Liebstadt to this day as a helpful, frugal, cheerful and humble person. Artistically, Henne continued his landscape painting, with motifs in Liebstadt (including Kuckuckstein Castle ) and the surrounding area.

Artur Henne died on February 19, 1963 just a few days after his birthday at the age of 76. His grave is in the Liebstadt cemetery.

Quotes

about the painter

    • Artur Henne has worked on nature with unreserved devotion. In this impartial artistic stance, we have, as the critics once called it, a “Saxon Corot” before us. This simple sense of nature, this freedom of line in the etchings, which are sometimes reminiscent of Rembrandt. (...) Camille Corot's words can easily be related to Artur Henne because they come from a similar basic attitude: “The beautiful in art is truth, immersed in the impression we received when we saw nature. "
    • If Artur Henne uses landscape motifs for his leaves, an inexpressibly fine scent is often spread over the vastness, and the longing for and joy in the beauty of nature permeate all things.

Hen about the "die-hard single" hen

    • Marriage is called the destruction of the self, with the obligation to bow to the yoke of a woman and, if possible, to produce children. The deed of the mother-in-law and the state is always pleasing.

literature

  • Gert Claußnitzer / Elsa Niemann / Annelies Richter (1997): Artur Henne. Dippoldiswalde 1997.
  • Jördis Lademann (2003): Artur Henne in Liebstadt. Liebstadt / Dresden 2003. ISBN 3-00-011624-9 .

Notes and sources

  1. ↑ Gert Claußnitzer in Claußnitzer / Niemann / Richter 1997, p. 8
  2. ↑ Georg Gelbke in Lademann 2003, p. 2
  3. ↑ Artur Henne in Lademann 2003, p. 9

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personal data
SURNAME Hen, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1963
Place of death Liebstadt