Ernst Henseler
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Ernst Henseler (born September 27, 1852 in Wepritz near Landsberg an der Warthe ; † October 27, 1940 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a German painter and draftsman.
Life
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Henseler was born as the third of seven children to a farmer in the Warthebruch . He studied at the Royal Art School in Berlin in 1870/71 . According to the certificate of October 17, 1871, signed by Martin Gropius , he completed all branches of drawing as the best in his class. He was awarded a small silver medal. He then pursued academic art studies from 1871 to 1877 at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar .
As a student of Karl Gussow , Albert Bauer and Albert Brendel , he trained to be an excellent genre and portrait painter. The paintings from that period are in the Fallersleben Palace , the Berlin National Gallery , the Bomann Museum in Celle and the Weimar Graphic Collection .
When he returned to Berlin, he received further support from Gropius. From 1878 he was a lecturer at several art schools and from 1881 taught at the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin . In the three-year year he received a professorship for life drawing at the Technical University of Berlin .
Engaged since Christmas 1882, he married the Landsberg merchant's daughter Anna Schiele on April 15, 1884. After the daughters Maria (1886–1972), Anna (1888–1964) and Dorothea (1891–1948), their son Friedrich was born in 1893. He had the talent of his father and studied architecture, but at the age of 19 he drowned while bathing in the Krummen Lanke . Maria matured into a good painter, Anna became a graphic artist.
During his annual summer stays in his homeland, Henseler mainly painted motifs from rural life, portraits and historical pictures. From 1877 he participated in the Berlin Academy exhibitions, until 1926 in the great Berlin art exhibitions. He was a member of the Berlin Artists Association and was also a member of the commission. He exhibited his pictures at the great Berlin art exhibitions (1877–1930), in the Glaspalast (Munich) (1880–1917) and occasionally in Düsseldorf, Dresden, Hamburg, Kiel, Vienna, London, Paris and St. Louis .
Ernst Henseler died in 1940 at the age of 88 in the "Waldfrieden" hospital in Zehlendorf. He was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery . The grave has not been preserved.
Honors
- Golden Medal in Berlin (1886)
- Silver Medal in London (1889)
- Copper Medal in London (1894)
- Mention honorifique in Paris (1900)
- House Order of the White Falcon , Knight's Cross 1st Class (1903)
- Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Berlin (1932)
literature
- Henseler, Erich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 433-434 .
- Gerhard Boese: Ernst Henseler 1852-1940. A painter from the Warthebruch. Published by the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Landsberg (Warthe) Stadt und Land e. V., Herford 2000.
- Literator: Berthold Kornowsky: Professor Ernst Henseler. In: Heimatblatt of the former parishes Landsberg / Warthe, Stadt und Land. 14th vol., 1962, No. 9 (September), p. 8.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 674.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henseler, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henseler, Ernest |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wepritz near Landsberg on the Warta |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1940 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Zehlendorf |