Johann Friedrich Hennings

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Romantic pasture landscape with picturesque farmsteads and small ruins

Johann Friedrich Hennings (born October 16, 1838 in Bremen , † June 29, 1899 in Munich ) was a German genre and landscape painter.

Hennings studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Oswald Achenbach . After graduating, he went on a study trip to Italy . He then settled in Munich in 1861.

A painter of almost the same name, Johann Ferdinand Hennings, died on June 20, 1895 in Munich at the age of 66.

Image order

  • 1864: Bathing children (motif from the Amperthal near Pähl)
  • 1865: Morning on Lake Garda near Torbole
  • 1866: Moonlit night near Verona, Marienplatz in Munich, Salzburg by night
  • 1868: Nymphenburg Palace near Munich, and a section from the palace park there; Moonlit night on the Danube near Regensburg
  • 1871: the great canal in Venice with a view of S. Maria della Salute
  • 1873: a winter motif near Passau from the inside; Blankenese an der Elbe (as a woodcut in No. 24 Ueber Land und Meer 1873, 29th vol., P. 460)
  • 1874: moonlit night in an old park with leaping waters; venetian gondola ride;
  • 1875: evening in the park; Departure for the hunt (with motif from the Solitude near Stuttgart)
  • 1877: two scenes from the Munich court garden: a ball-playing Rococo company in front of the Dianen temple; Schwanthaler's fairy tale fountain with a modern public in front of it;
  • 1878: badminton game; Summer evening in Leopoldskron; Boat trip on the Obersee
  • 1879: Departure of the steamer from the Lido in Venice: autumn evening in the park
  • 1880: in the pleasure garden at Nymphenburg; a studio scene; reading girl; from Venice; Frost play on a flowery spring meadow
  • 1881: "In front of the castle portal" - mischievous girls tease the fat porter who has fallen asleep
  • 1881: Jagdschlößchen in spring with two riders
  • 1881: "Riva degli Schiavoni" in Venice
  • 1881: "Society under the trees of the inn at the red rooster"
  • 1882: The escaped darling - a parrot, which is lured in vain by a beautiful lady with sugar
  • 1882: "Wirtshaus zum golden Löwen" - a descended prince converses graciously with the bourgeois guests there
  • 1882: "Spring landscape" from the gardens of Isola Bella in Lake Maggiore (Gazebo 1885, p. 308 and 309)
  • 1883: happy soldiers, shouting, singing and drinking, in the company of young girls
  • 1883: "Beim Wirth zum Schwarzen Adler" (as a woodcut in Vom Fels zum Meer, March 1884)
  • 1885: Moonlit night near Salzburg with the staffage of a torchlight procession
  • 1885: "Evening on the Salzach" - cheerful folk scene in the costume of the previous century (cf. Lützow's magazine XVIII, 308, and woodcut in No. 37 of the German Illustr. Ed. 1886);
  • 1885: "The King is Coming!" Ludwig II in gleaming equipage drives along an avenue, whereby the torchlight of the trailblazer interacts with the moonlight. In an even higher degree, H. proved his bravura in the representation of double light with his
  • 1883: "Canal in Amsterdam" - the play of the moonlight in its pallor and the reddish gas flames in the motionless waters of the canal, which stretches between elongated streets, is reproduced with the greatest truth.
  • 1885: "Invitation of the stone guest" - fantastic Capriccio (Gazebo 1885, p. 869)
  • 1887: Early mass in the old collegiate church in Berchtesgaden
  • 1887: Little girls feeding swans
  • 1887: "Rendezvous in front of the castle" - A number of distinguished, partly mounted men and women with the occupants of a four-horse carriage.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Friedrich Hennings  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • [Online version] Holland, Hyacinth, "Hennings, Johann Friedrich" in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 50 (1905), pp. 195–196

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography - Hennings, Johann Friedrich. In: www.deutsche-biographie.de. Retrieved June 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Hennings, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1899
Place of death Munich