Ernest Martin Hennings

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Ernest Martin Hennings (Jr.) (born February 5, 1886 in Penns Grove , New Jersey , † May 19, 1956 in Taos (New Mexico) ) was a German-American painter of the American Southwest.

Life

Hennings came in 1886 as the first-born son of Ernst Martin Hennings Sr. (1857–1938) and Louise Hennings, b. Dunklau (1863–1926), born in Penns Grove, New Jersey. The parents had immigrated from Wesselburen , Schleswig-Holstein a few years earlier and married in Chicago in 1884. The family settled back in Chicago two years later .

Hennings attended the Art Institute of Chicago for five years and then did commercial painting. In 1912 he enrolled at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts . In 1915, after the beginning of World War I , he returned to America.

In 1917 Hennings first visited Taos, New Mexico, whose landscape and the Pueblo Indians living there inspired him and decisively shaped his future style and motifs. In 1921 Hennings moved permanently from Chicago to Taos and in 1924 became a member of the Taos Society of Artists . He painted scenes from life in the Southwest for the rest of his career.

He died in Taos in 1956.

Hennings was married to Helen Otte (1893–1985) since 1926 and had one daughter.

Trivia

George Bush Sr. accompanied a painting by Ernest Martin Hennings to the White House during his vice presidency and presidency with “ Passing By, ” on loan from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts . Under President George Bush Jr. , Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Koerner's “ A Charge to Keep ” hung in the Oval Office of the White House . Both western painters have roots in Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ birth record of Bertha Sophie Luise Dunklau, September 28, 1863, the parish Wesselburen, Schleswig-Holstein.
  2. ↑ marriage entry of Martin Hennings and Louise Dunklau, April 3, 1884 Cook County, Illinois. ( In Latter-day Saints (Mormons) online database )
  3. ↑ Barbara Bush: Barbara Bush: A Memoir. New York, Scribner, 1994. p. 264 (translation): “We also took a loan from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Passing By , from E. Martin Hennings, one of the Taos painters, from the office of the Vice President . "( Digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Hennings, Ernest Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hennings, E. Martin; Hennings, Ernest Martin junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Penns Grove , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1956
Place of death Taos (New Mexico)