Manfred Henninger

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Manfred Henninger (born December 2, 1894 in Backnang , † October 5, 1986 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter , draftsman , graphic artist , ceramist and university professor . As an artist he is assigned to the group The Lost Generation .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a pastry chef, the war volunteer studied at the Stuttgart Art Academy with Robert Poetzelberger , Christian Landenberger and Heinrich Altherr , in Dresden with Oskar Kokoschka . The First World War made the volunteer a decided supporter of pacifism , and later a rapprochement with the leftist writer Friedrich Wolf followed . Henninger co-founded the New Secession in Stuttgart in 1929 . In 1931 he went on a trip to Italy with Sepp Vees and Gustav Schopf . In 1933 he emigrated via Switzerland to Ibiza and from there, because of the Spanish civil war, to Ticino , where he belonged to the Circolo Verbano operating in Ronco sopra Ascona . In 1949 he was appointed to the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart as head of the painting class for landscape and portrait, where he taught until 1961. From 1955 to 1957 he was rector of the academy, then vice-rector for two years. His most famous students include Klaus Heider , Peter Kalkhof , Günther C. Kirchberger , Roland Ladwig , Hans Schreiner and Friedrich Sieber .

His memories of my teacher at the Stuttgart Academy, which in the Ancient of Days in 1976 Wolfgang Kermer issued Academy releases published, he concluded:

I can say that teaching has had a fruitful effect on my own work. Judging so many students has made me more confident in judging my own works. I owe them a lot of experience and happy memories. - Talents are very rare. What constitutes the value of art is already prepared in the individual person. The influence of life can only be awakening and inspiring.

His works often revolve around the subject areas of the human figure and landscape and can be described as late impressionist.

Henninger received several awards and honors: In 1962 he was made an honorary member of the Stuttgart Art Academy, in 1975 he received the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg , the Citizen's Medal of the City of Stuttgart in 1979, the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1979 and the star in 1985. In 1985 he was awarded the Hans Thoma Prize .

Manfred Henninger was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Henninger, Manfred ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 21, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ 1948: Galerie Chichio Haller, Zurich

literature

  • State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: for the 200th anniversary of the academy: The teachers 1946–1961. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1961, pp. 94–97.
  • Manfred Henninger: Memories of my teaching at the Stuttgart Academy . In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 7 / Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart / For the period from April 1, 1975 to May 31, 1976. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer . Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart, August 1976, pp. 11–13, with ill.
  • Manfred Henninger: Painter and Teacher: an exhibition of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg e. V. at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . January 12 to February 9, 1979. Exhibition cat., Ed. from the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg e. V., Stuttgart 1979 (with a list of Professor Henninger's students).
  • Manfred Henninger: Drawings and pastels on the Satyricon by Petronius and on the farming of Virgil . Exhibition cat. Gallery of the City of Stuttgart, Stuttgart undated [1979].
  • Harry Schlichtenmaier: Manfred Henninger 1894–1986. Work overview. 1993.
  • Niklaus Starck : Circolo Verbano. The painters of Ronco sopra Ascona. Porzio, [Ascona 2015]. On Henninger especially pp. 44–49, with illus.

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personal data
SURNAME Henninger, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, graphic artist, ceramist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Backnang
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1986
Place of death Stuttgart