Gustav Adolph Hennig
Gustav Adolph (Adolf) Hennig (born June 14, 1797 in Dresden , † January 15, 1869 in Leipzig ) was a German history painter , portraitist , graphic artist , etcher and lithographer . He was director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig.
life and work
Hennig trained with the portrait painter Christian Leberecht Vogel and, since 1810, at the Drawing, Painting and Architecture Academy , which later became the Dresden Art Academy , with Johann David Schubert and Friedrich Matthäi . In 1814 he worked as a portrait painter in Großenhain , from 1816 to 1821 in Leipzig, in 1820 and 1821 also in Halle , Schkeuditz and the surrounding area.
He continued his studies - with royal support and accompanied by the engraver Christian Ernst Stölzel - from 1822 to 1826 and from 1832 to 1833 in Italy, especially in Florence, Naples and Rome. After his return in 1840 he became a teacher and professor of drawing, later director of the Leipzig Academy. Among the works better known to his contemporaries were the paintings Christ Cleansing the Temple and The Expulsion of the Changer from the Temple .
His simple, rather ascetic painting Reading Girl from 1828 is known today, which can be viewed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig and serves as the cover for a catalog of the house The Museum in the Living Room (2005). The picture on Alberto Manguel's The Story of Reading can be seen as a further cover motif . This painting is also offered as an art print .
- Selection of paintings
Portrait of Johanna Recoius
Reading girl ,
1828
Portrait Gustav Seyffarth 1837
The artist's children on their way to school , 1851
Prof. Dr. Johann Gottfried Stallbaum , Rector of the Thomas School , 1854
literature
- Friedrich Mueller, Karl Klunzinger , Adolf Säubert: The artists of all times and peoples: or the lives and works of the most famous builders, sculptors, painters, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers etc. from the earliest art epochs to the present day, edited according to the best sources , F. –L, Volume 2. Ebner & Seubert, 1860
- Rudolf Vierhaus, Walther Killy: German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE), Volume 4. Saur, Munich, ISBN 978-3-598-23186-5 , p. 591
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of Fine Arts, Volume 4, EA Seemann, 1869, p. 105
- ↑ leipzig-almanach.de : The museum in the living room , accessed 30 October 2010
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hennig, Gustav Adolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hennig, Gustav Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history painter, portraitist, graphic artist, etcher and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1869 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |