Friedrich von Schennis

Friedrich von Schennis in his Berlin studio (1914)

Hans Friedrich Emanuel von Schennis (born June 17, 1852 in Elberfeld , † April 4, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German landscape painter and etcher from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

In his hometown of Elberfeld, where he was one of August von der Heydt's closest friends , the Swiss nobility from Schennis, son of the merchant Friedrich Emanuel von Schennis, received his first artistic training from the portrait and landscape painter Richard Seel . Then he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In the years 1869/1870 he was a pupil in the elementary class of Andreas Müller and the landscape class of Oswald Achenbach . He was also a student of the landscape painter Theodor Hagen , whom he followed in 1871 or 1872 to the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar . He made several study trips to Paris and Italy. From 1888 to 1890 he stayed in Rome , between 1892 and 1904 he lived in Düsseldorf , then in Berlin , where he kept a large private collection of pictures, books, coins and tapestries in his apartment at Lützowplatz 11. Wolfgang Goetz , John Höxter , Else Lasker-Schüler , Erich Mühsam and others described him as a bohemian , grand seigneur , gentleman and dandy . He was awarded a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1899.

Park landscape with a basin

The bathing nymph

Schennis, Hans Friedrich Emanuel von . In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Painters' works of the 19th century, contribution to art history. Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 540 f.
Else Lasker-Schüler : Friedrich von Schennis . In: Der Sturm , Volume 2, No. 74 from August 26, 1911 ( digitized version ).
H. Appenzeller: Schennis, Hans Friedrich Emanuel von . In: Carl Brun : Swiss Artist Lexicon . Verlag Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1913, Volume 3, p. 37 f.
Erich Mühsam : Non-political memories . Chapter 11: Berlin gleanings . Development of the Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 1927 ( digitized version ).
John Höxter : That's how we lived! 25 years of bohemian Berlin . Biko, Berlin 1929, p. 25 f.
Hubert Miketta: Friedrich von Schennis, the painter and gentleman . In: Revue des Monats , Volume 6 (1931/1932), Issue 3, p. 82 f. ( Digitized version ).
Fedor von Zobeltitz : I loved living so much. The memories . Ullstein, Berlin 1934, p. 120 ff.
Wolfgang Goetz : In the “megalomania” at Pschorr and elsewhere. Memories of Berlin regulars . Arthur Collignon Verlag, Berlin 1936, pp. 22-29.
Schennis, Friedrich von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 31 .

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↑ Horst Heidermann : Seel. Johann Richard Seel, painter in Wuppertal and draftsman of the German Michel (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal, volume 40), Thales Verlag, Essen 2003, ISBN 3-88908-492-3 , p. 162
^ Elementary class A. Müller 1869–1870: Schennis, HF Emanuel; from Elberfeld resp. Zurich; Oct 8, 1869; born June 17, 1851; Landscape painter; , Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Dept. Rhineland, BR 0004 (Government Düsseldorf Presidential Office), No. 1561
^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147

^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 518

↑ von Schennis, F., W Lützowplatz 11 , in Adressbuch Berlin, 1911, Part IV, painter, p. 256

personal data
SURNAME	Schennis, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schennis, Hans Friedrich Emanuel von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape painter and etcher from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	June 17, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH	April 4, 1918
Place of death	Berlin