Franz Seraph Henseler

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Franz Seraph Henseler (born August 18, 1883 in Rosenheim ; died April 15, 1918 in Haar near Munich ) was a graphic artist and painter of Rhenish Expressionism who worked in Munich and Cologne .

Cover design for Franz Jung's idiot book (1912)
Book cover on Karl Otten : The Journey to Albania (1913)

Life

Franz Henseler was the son of a taxidermist in Munich who tried to prevent his son's artistic ambitions. He sporadically studied law in Munich and stayed in the Schwabing artist pension Fürmann among the Schwabing bohemians around Ernst Moritz Engert , Fritz Klein and Julius Talbot Keller from Aachen, who bought pictures from him. From 1910, Henseler designed posters for Munich restaurants.

In 1913, Henseler moved to Bonn and made friends with August Macke , who drew him, and formed an artists' colony with Otten, Engert and Kiel in the Villa Agnita in Graurheindorf . According to Elisabeth Macke, Henseler led a very unsteady life in Bonn. Henseler was one of the 16 artists who exhibited in the summer of 1913 at the "Exhibition of Rhenish Expressionists" initiated by Macke in the Friedrich Cohen art salon in Bonn. His main work Rhenish Madonna , which was created that year, was also exhibited there, his most beautiful picture is considered lost, there is still a draft sketch: Female saints in front of a towering city . The picture Carrying the Cross , which documents the enthusiasm of the German Expressionists for El Greco , was bought by Macke's brother-in-law Walter Gerhardt; it was donated to the Bonn Art Museum in 1959. Macke himself owned the picture Flagellation of Christ from Henseler , also a reminiscence of El Greco.

Henseler designed the book cover for The Journey through Albania by Karl Otten in an expressionist style. He participated in the First German Autumn Salon of Herwarth Walden in Berlin , where Macke took three pictures of Henseler: The Madonna , The Faun and the drawing Sebastian .

He was represented with glass work at the Cologne Werkbund exhibition in 1914, and Alfred Flechtheim presented him together with Paul Baum and Walter Ophey in Düsseldorf . That year he moved from Bonn to Cologne . There he was a member of the Cologne bohemian group Lunisten around Max Ernst , Otto Freundlich , Karl Otten, Hans Hansen, Heinrich Hoerle and Karl Nierendorf .

Henseler was called up as a soldier in 1915 and was deployed on the Western Front in France until 1917, where he became seriously mentally ill. He died in the Haar sanatorium near Munich in 1918 .

EM Engert had a portfolio with fifteen lithographs based on drawings by Henseler self-published in 1920.

The Kunstmuseum Bonn dedicated his first solo exhibition to him in 1977, the August-Macke-Haus Bonn followed in 1994. Since then, Henseler has been represented at various exhibitions on German Expressionism. The Düsseldorf Museum Kunstpalast included his picture Carrying the Cross (1913) in the El Greco exhibition in 2012 .

literature

  • Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg : Henseler, Franz Seraph (Franz) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 72, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023177-9 , p. 72 f.
  • Henseler, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 45 .
  • Margarethe Jochimsen (ed.): Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke: Encounters. Archival document of the August Macke Haus association, Bonn. Kerber, Bielefeld 2009, p. 167f.
  • Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg : Franz Henseler (1883–1918) . Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, exhibition August 4 - September 6, 1977. Rhineland, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3792703343 .
  • Margarethe Jochimsen, Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg: Franz S. Henseler. From stylistic art to expressionism. August Macke House Association, Bonn 1994.
  • Friederike Weimar: Folded Dreams: Works by Young Artists - Victims of the First World War. Benno Berneis, Hans Fuglsang, Franz Henseler, Wilhelm Morgner, Franz Nölken, Otto Soltau, Hermann Stenner and Albert Weisgerber. Edited by Helga Gutbrod. Gebr. Mann Verlag / Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-7861-2712-3

Web links

Commons : Franz Seraph Henseler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke: Encounters . Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld and Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86678-292-1 , pp. 167 f .
  2. ↑ An Expressionist Summer - Bonn 1913 - June 27th. until 09/29/2013. Kunstmuseum Bonn , accessed on February 26, 2014 (exhibition information).
  3. ↑ August Macke and the Rhenish Expressionists - September 28, 2002 to January 5, 2003 in the Brücke-Museum Berlin. (No longer available online.) Brücke-Museum Berlin , archived from the original on November 25, 2014 ; accessed on February 26, 2014 (exhibition information). 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bruecke-museum.de
  4. ^ First German Autumn Salon. Berlin 1913 . Berlin: Verl. Der Sturm, 1913, p. 19
  5. ^ Judith F. Dolkart; Beat Wismer (Ed.): El Greco and the modern age . Düsseldorf; Museum Kunst-Palast 2012, p. 304; P. 225f
personal data
SURNAME Henseler, Franz Seraph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henseler, Franz; Henseler, Franz S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenheim
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1918
Place of death Haar near Munich