Rosa Benesch-Hennig

Rosa Benesch-Hennig (born February 23, 1903 in Vienna as Rosa Hennig ; † January 7, 1986 in Tarrenz , Tyrol ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Rosa Hennig's drawing talent was recognized and encouraged early on and she attended painting and drawing courses. She studied at the Vienna Women's Academy under Hermann Grom-Rottmayer and from 1923 to 1928 as one of the first women at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , where Hans Tichy and Josef Jungwirth were her teachers. She now lived in Klosterneuburg . In 1926 she married Moritz Benesch, the son of the etcher and painter Josef Ferdinand Benesch . With her husband she went on study trips to London , Krakow , Nuremberg , Berlin as well as Bulgaria and Spain . As a result of the events of World War II , Rosa Benesch came to Tyrol, where she settled in Tarrenz and lived until her death.

Rosa Benesch painted portraits , landscapes , still lifes and genre pictures in oils and watercolors . In Tyrol she turned to fresco painting and created over 150 frescoes and sgraffiti on house facades in the Tyrolean Oberland with rural scenes, depictions of saints, historical themes or decorative elements such as window frames. In addition, she also worked as a restorer.

Works

Mural St. Martin at the Martinskapelle Lermoos (1964)

• Fresco St. Florian as protector of the village , Tarrenz fire station, around 1960
• Mural St. Martin with the beggar , Martinskapelle Lermoos , 1964
• Mural St. Francis , cloister of the Capuchin monastery Feldkirch , 1969
• Fresco Madonna and Child , Haus am Tosn, Tarrenz

literature

• Josef Ringler: Benesch-Hennig, Rosa . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 167 .
• City of Imst: MIB 2006 - Rosl Benesch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schumacher, Wiesauer: Expositurkirche Our Lady Maria Schnee, Church Maria Schnee. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved December 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Franckenstein, Wiesauer: Residential building, central floor plan, old Sterzingerhaus, Agererhaus. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved December 15, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Schumacher, Wiesauer: Art in construction on public buildings: wall painting depictions from the peasant life, hl. Florian. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Schumacher, Wiesauer: Wegkapelle, Chapel St. Martin, Martinskapelle. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Cornelia Grobner: The forgotten women artists. Or: remembering for advanced users. meinviertel.at from September 20, 2017