Erwin Henning

Erwin Henning (born June 19, 1901 in Augsburg ; † March 8, 1993 in Karlsruhe - Durlach ) was a German painter .

Life

Henning studied from 1917 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Hermann Groeber and Franz von Stuck , whose master class he became from 1919. After graduating from the academy in 1923, he worked, among other things, as a portrait painter . In 1928 he received the Sir Edward Moon Prize .

During a study visit to Nice, financed by a grant from the city of Munich, in 1930, he was inspired to one of the main motifs of his work, the bathing pictures . After his return from France, Henning joined the artist group Die Juryfrei in Munich ; In 1932 he became a member of the exhibition group 7 Munich painters . In 1938 he received the Albrecht Dürer grant from the city of Nuremberg . In 1939 he was not allowed to accept a call to the State School for Applied Arts in Nuremberg because he was not a member of the NSDAP . During the Second World War , from 1941 to 1944, he was initially a war painter in Potsdam and Lapland , and later a medic in field hospital 181 in the East Prussian basin . After his return from English captivity, he lived in Leutkirch in the Allgäu . In 1948 Henning was appointed to the Munich Secession Artists' Association. Erwin Henning was a member of the German Association of Artists .

A portrait of the Rococo master builder Dominikus Zimmermann by Henning hangs in the conference room of the Landsberg town hall. In addition to portraits and other depictions of people, for example in the bathing pictures , his work is mainly characterized by landscapes .

family

Erwin Henning married Irma Hurt in 1939. The marriage resulted in two children: Ursula (* 1942) and Wolfgang Henning (* 1946), who also became a painter.

Awards

• Art Prize of the City of Kempten (Allgäu) , 1953
• Upper Swabian Art Prize , 1959
• Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1977
• Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg , 1981
• Awarded the title of professor by the state of Baden-Württemberg, 1982
• Art Prize of the Artists' Association of Baden-Württemberg, 1988
• Honorary citizen of the city of Leutkirch / Allgäu, 1990
• Honorary member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, 1992

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Henning, Erwin ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 15, 2015) 
2. ↑ Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Second volume (EJ) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 420)

literature

• Carmen Behrens: Walter Schulz-Matan 1889–1965. A Magical Realist , Göttingen 2009.
• Erwin Henning (1901–1993): Couples . Foreword by Utz Claassen, with the assistance of Dorothee Höfert. EnBW AG, Karlsruhe and Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation in the Beuroner Kunstverlag, Hausen ob Verena 2003, ISBN 978-3-934510-14-2 and ISBN 978-3-87071-106-1 (traveling exhibition in Karlsruhe etc.).
• Stefan Feucht, Heike Frommer: Erwin Henning - War, Trauma & Metamorphosis . Landratsamt Bodenseekreis, Friedrichshafen 2015, ISBN 978-3-945396-00-1 (exhibition in Meersburg, Red House).

Web links

• Literature by and about Erwin Henning in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae at the Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation for the exhibition "PAARE" 2003 ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )