Hedwig Behnisch

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Hedwig Behnisch (born January 28, 1873 in Luszkowo ; † July 30, 1963 in Roermond ) was a German painter. She created impressionistic landscapes, portraits and figures and is best known for her floral still lifes.

life and work

Hedwig Behnisch was born in Luszkowo in the district of Kosten in the southwest of the Prussian province of Posen as the daughter of Elisabeth Kielmann (1848-1917) and Gustav Behnisch (1837-1913). She spent her childhood with two younger brothers on her father's manor there, where she initially received private lessons. Later she went to school in Görlitz , where she lived with the family of her uncle Adolf Behnisch, the owner of a wagon factory. In 1897 they traveled together to Rügen , Malmö and Copenhagen , where Behnisch got to know the work of Bertel Thorwaldsen (1770–1844).

When her parents moved to Breslau in 1899 , Behnisch began training at the local art academy with Max Wislicenus . In 1905 she painted in museums in Breslau, Dresden and Munich . In 1907 Behnisch traveled to Brasschaat in the Netherlands and became a student of Henry Luyten . At Luyten's “Institut des Beaux Arts”, which ran there until 1910, she painted and drew motifs from this area, but also photographed the surroundings and fellow students. She exchanged letters for many years, especially with Mara Corradini .

The advice of her teacher and later husband Luyten and the press success as La Reine des Fleurs (Queen of Flowers) at an exhibition in Paris in 1912 prompted Behnisch to concentrate primarily on flower still lifes in her painting.

In 1913 Behnisch became a member of the Association of Silesian Artists and exhibited her pictures in Berlin and Magdeburg . In 1915 and 1916, stays in Worpswede and Bremen followed . After the death of his first wife, Behnisch married the Belgian artist Henry Luyten on January 8, 1917 in the Luther Church in Breslau . After the First World War , the German-Belgian couple moved to Germany in 1919, where they toured northern Germany and visited the artists' settlements in Worpswede and Ahrenshoop . From 1920 they lived in Wieck auf dem Darß until they returned to Belgium in 1923 .

Her relationship with Henry Luyten remained childless and was strained when her underage niece Käthe had a child from her husband in 1933. She cared for her husband when he fell ill in 1938 and saw herself as the guardian of his work, which she admired and of which she also made copies. Until the Second World War, Behnisch u. a. seven exhibitions in Antwerp . She became a member of the Landsgilde der Vlaamse Kunstenaars (National Guild of Flemish Artists).

Hedwig Luyten-Behnisch and her husband were arrested in May 1940, but released after a night in prison. Towards the end of the war, her studio was partially destroyed; her husband died after another night in prison in 1945. Hedwig Luyten-Behnisch tried despite financial difficulties to preserve her husband's estate and donated 123 of his - and about 80 of her own - pictures to the Museum Roermond. In 1953 she moved from Brasschaat to her niece Gerda Behnisch in Kaiserslautern . In 1959 she moved first to Lübeck, then to Roermond, where she died in 1963 at the age of 90.

The Municipal Museum Roermond owns around 80 of her paintings. Many of the works created before 1917 are in private collections in Germany. Further pictures are privately owned in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.

Exhibitions

Behnisch exhibited her works in the following cities:

  • 1912: Paris
  • 1913: Berlin, Magdeburg
  • 1916: Breslau
  • 1924: Antwerp (together with Henry Luyten)
  • 1926: Antwerp (under the name Jadwiga Luyten-Behnisch)
  • 1927: Antwerp (under the name Hedwig Luyten, works from 1902-1927)
  • 1928: Salford, Manchester, England (under the name Jadwiga Luyten Behnisch, together Henry Luyten)
  • 1929: Antwerp, Galerie Breckpot (under the name Jadwiga Luyten Behnisch, together with Henry Luyten)
  • 1930: Antwerp, Zaal Agthe (under the name Jadwiga Luyten Behnisch, together with Henry Luyten)
  • 193 ?: Antwerp, Zaal FAK (under the name Jadwiga Luyten Behnisch)
  • 1940: Antwerp, Stedejlijke Festzaal (with other artists)
  • 1941: Berlin, Berliner Kunsthalle (Flemish contemporary artists)
  • 1941: Brussels, Louisalaan (under the name Jadwiga Luyten-Behnisch)
  • 1951: Roermond, Gemeentelijk Museum

literature

  • De Beenhouwer, Jozef: 'Institut des Beaux Arts Henry Luyten' at Brasschaat: One Hundred Years On (Brasschaat: Pandora, 2008; ISBN 978-90-5325-293-2 ), pp. 60-74.
  • Gerhard M. Schneidereit: Dark forest and wide sea. One hundred years of painting on the Darß (edition.fischhuder art book / Atelier im Bauernhaus: 2010; ISBN 978-3881322331 ), pp. 94–97.

Web links

Commons : Hedwig Behnisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ De Beenhouwer 2008, Institut des Beaux-Arts Henry Luyten, pp. 60, 64.
  2. ^ De Beenhouwer 2008, Institut des Beaux-Arts Henry Luyten, pp. 64–65.
  3. ↑ De Beenhouwer 2008, Institut des Beaux-Arts Henry Luyten, pp. 65, 70.
  4. ^ De Beenhouwer 2008, Institute des Beaux-Arts Henry Luyten, p. 65.
  5. ↑ Gerhard M. Schneidereit 2010, Dunkler Wald und weites Meer. One hundred years of painting on the Darß, p. 95.
  6. ^ De Beenhouwer 2008, Institut des Beaux-Arts Henry Luyten, pp. 56, 65, 68; Schneidereit 2010, Dunkler Wald und weites Meer, p. 96
  7. ^ De Beenhouwer 2008, Institut des Beaux-Arts Henry Luyten, pp. 68, 70.
  8. ^ De Beenhouwer 2008, Institut des Beaux-Arts Henry Luyten, pp. 68–70.
  9. ↑ http://www.janfranssimonsvzw.be/ Artists from Brasschaat: Behnisch Hedwig.
  10. ^ De Beenhouwer 2008, Institut des Beaux-Arts Henry Luyten, pp. 65, 68, 71.
  11. ↑ https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/library/100075 Catalog of an exhibition of oil paintings by Henry Luyten and Jadwiga Luyten-Behnisch, of Brasschaet, Antwerp [Salford, 1928].
personal data
SURNAME Behnisch, Hedwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luyten-Behnisch, Jadwiga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German impressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Luszkowo
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1963
Place of death Roermond