Paul Henle

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Paul (William) Henle (born March 20, 1887 in Hamburg ; † September 12, 1962 in Ibiza ) was a German sculptor and painter .

Life

Henle was the son of the Hamburg Jewish cantor and composer Moritz Henle . After training as a musician, he took private lessons in painting from 1906 and began studying sculpture in Berlin that same year , which he continued in Munich from 1908 to 1910 .

In the remaining years before the First World War, he went on study trips to Rome and Florence . In the war he fought on the western front . After his return he was briefly a member of the Hamburg Secession and joined the Hamburg Art Association , the Hamburg Art Association of 1832 and the German Association of Artists . He then went to Italy again for three years and returned to Hamburg in 1926. The Hamburger Kunsthalle acquired some of his works.

On April 25, 1933, Paul Henle was expelled from the Hamburg artist class and after 1933 from the Reich Chamber of Culture . From 1935 he became involved in the Jewish Cultural Association .

In 1939 Henle emigrated to London with his wife, the art weaver Margarete Brix-Henle . There he joined the Free German Cultural Association in England , worked as a picture restorer at the Courtauld Institute of Art and supported his wife's handicraft weaving, which earned part of his livelihood.

After the end of the Second World War , Henle and his wife returned to Hamburg twice. On September 12, 1962, Paul Henle was killed in a swimming accident in Ibiza .

Create

Hammond-Norden burial site , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Henle made landscapes throughout his career, but since the late 1920s has also specialized in portraits of children. The art historian Maike Bruhns attests to him an “extraordinary feeling for fine forms and delicate outlines” in his paintings and “similarity and rigor of form” in the portrait busts. As a follower of Aristide Maillol , Henle made numerous sculptures of boyish girls' bodies based on models from antiquity and the Renaissance .

Works (selection)

There are two tombs designed by Paul Henle at the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf :

  • Arnstedt , now Böhm (1909/1910), at grid square AB 20 ( Stiller Weg , east of Nordteich )
  • Cohen / Rosenfeld , now Hammond-Norden (1920), at grid square T 10 ( Kapellenstrasse , next to Chapel 1)

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Henle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Maike Bruhns : Henle, Paul. Biography. In: The Jewish Hamburg - a historical reference work. Institute for the History of the German Jews , accessed on September 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Margarete Brix-Henle. In: Women's biographies. Authority for Schools and Vocational Training of the City of Hamburg, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Henle, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henle, Paul William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1962
Place of death Ibiza