Carl Heinrich Wenng

The Brunnhaus in Brunnthal, painting by Carl Heinrich Wenng, 1830

Carl Heinrich Wenng (born July 24, 1787 in Nördlingen , † 1850 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter .

Wenng came from a Nördlingen artist family who later mainly worked in Munich and to which the cartographer Gustav Wenng also belonged. He enjoyed his first drawing lessons in Nördlingen. At a young age he moved to Stuttgart, where Johann Gotthard von Müller introduced him to the art of copperplate engraving . At the same time he created historical representations and oil paintings of landscapes as a painter.

He went on study trips to Italy and France and toured Switzerland. There he created for Orell Füssli & Cie. Drawings based on nature, such as the Zurich Casino, which opened in 1807 (today Zurich Higher Court). He got to know the architect of the casino and founder of the Escher-Wyss machine factory, Hans Caspar Escher in the Felsenhof .

In October 1811 he married Nanette Scheller (1790-1837), the daughter of a citizen of Zurich and a shoemaker, with whom he had three sons (Heinrich August Friedrich † (1810), Carl Friedrich (1812-1854), Caspar Gustav Wenng ). In 1816 he returned to Stuttgart with his family. Wenng moved to Munich for ten years in 1827, where he painted as a lithographer and cartographer for the Cotta publishing house . He also gave classes and wrote a work on perspective. After the death of his wife, he returned to Stuttgart in 1837.

During this time he invented the so-called "art print without a press" to reproduce art sheets without a printing press. With his second wife, Marie Friederike Ringleb, Wenng finally moved to Munich in 1846. Many of the works he created at that time, some with Munich motifs, were acquired by the Munich City Museum around 1884 . His great life's work as a painter, lithographer and cartographer did not bring the hoped-for success.

Works (selection)

Max-Joseph-Bridge and Bogenhausen , 1812
Collapse of the Isar Bridge , 1813
The Roßschwemmbach , 1852
Estate of the wage-driver Krenkl

Web links

Commons : Carl Heinrich Wenng - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Carl Heinrich Wenng on artnet

Individual evidence

^ [1] Thomas Germann: Traces of famous Munich city cartographers in Langnau . Father and son Wenng were also active in our region in the 19th century. Langnauer Post 115, autumn 2016 edition. Printed and published by Ebnöther Joos AG, Langnau am Albis, Switzerland.

personal data
SURNAME	Wenng, Carl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 24, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nordlingen
DATE OF DEATH	1850
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] [1] Thomas Germann: Traces of famous Munich city cartographers in Langnau . Father and son Wenng were also active in our region in the 19th century. Langnauer Post 115, autumn 2016 edition. Printed and published by Ebnöther Joos AG, Langnau am Albis, Switzerland.