Eberhard Siegfried Henne

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Eberhard Siegfried Henne (born July 27, 1759 in Gunsleben , † December 5, 1828 in Berlin ) was a German engraver .

Life

Bivouac of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig before the battle near Ölper (1809)

Henne was the son of pastor Samuel David Ludwig Henne and therefore began to study theology at the University of Halle in 1778 , which he broke off after a year to learn drawing and etching at the Academy in Leipzig. In 1781 he moved to Berlin and from then on oriented himself particularly towards Daniel Chodowiecki and his artistic environment. In 1793 Henne became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. He became famous for his engraving, Sacrifice of Iphigenia after Charles André van Loo, shown at the Berlin Academy exhibition in 1793 . As a reproduction engraver, he worked a lot based on Chodowiecki's models and was present at the exhibitions of the Berlin Academy in 1793, 1802, 1804 and 1806. Among them were book illustrations, among others for the Cotta'sche publishing house . The French times and the coalition wars brought him into economic distress and forced him to accept smaller private contracts. In 1808 he moved to his relatives in Braunschweig and Westerburg . This is where the famous sheet of the Wars of Liberation from the bivouac of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig before the battle at Ölper (1809) was written . The Friedrich Wilhelm Oak in Braunschweig still reminds of the location of this bivouac . Furthermore, the engravings after Cranach's winged altar of the Last Judgment and views of the Harz. In 1809 he moved back to Berlin, where in 1810 his sheet of the farewell of the king and royal princes from the dying Queen Luise was written. In 1817 he became a teacher at the Prussian Academy of Arts there .

literature

  • Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of the Visual Artists. Volume 16, Leipzig 1923, p. 390.

Web links

Commons : Eberhard Siegfried Henne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ membership database of the Berlin Academy on adk.de
personal data
SURNAME Henne, Eberhard Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Gunsleben
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1828
Place of death Berlin