Henning Edens

Henning Edens (born February 22, 1885 in Hamburg ; † January 14, 1943 there ) was a German painter .

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Henning Edens was a son of the veterinarian Emil Edens and his wife Jennie. He had two older and one younger brother. Edens completed an apprenticeship as a painter and attended the Dresden Art Academy from 1905 to 1908 . His teachers included Robert Sterl and Carl Bantzer . He then attended the Königsberg Art Academy until 1910 and toured Holland and France. In 1911 he went to Altona , where in 1918 he married the painter Ilse Tesdorpf-Edens .

From 1919 Edens got involved as a member in organizational tasks of the Altona artist association . When the association wanted to make the city of Altona known as the “City of Culture”, Edens took part in the “Art Exhibition Altona” in 1929, at which many important German artists exhibited. In 1933 he took over the chairmanship of the association. During the time of National Socialism , Edens came into conflict with the government in the Altona town hall early on because of his views. The chairman of the Kampfbund for German Culture , Karl Wilhelm Göring , tried to influence him politically in 1934. In 1939 Edens took over the post of treasurer of the artists' association, in which there was hardly any activity due to political and internal disputes. Henning Edens was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association , to which he had belonged since 1912.

During the Second World War , Edens had an apartment and studio on Rödingsmarkt . The apartment and most of his pictures were burned by a bomb at the end of 1942.

Works

Edens later worked as an open-air painter at the Hamburg School. He preferred to paint landscape motifs from northern Germany and Scandinavia. He had received the suggestions for this during numerous trips in the mid-1930s. When designing his works, he often painted in the style of old Dutch painters. In the design of light and color, influences from Claude Monet or Camille Pissarro can often be found. Although his work was of high quality, he did not succeed in economic success, presumably due to his political views. The Artists in Need Foundation from Hamburg acquired the painting “Hamburg Harbor” in 1931, which was shown in the Hamburger Kunsthalle .

literature

• Gustav Pauli , Peter Hirschfeld, Karl Wilhelm Tesdorpf and Hans Leip : Hundred years of Hamburg art. 1832-1932. Verlag Br. Sachse, Hamburg 1932, pp. 61–62 ( digitized version )
• Susanne Geese: Edens, Henning . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 111-112 .

Web links

• Henning Edens on artnet