Sebastian Hennig (painter)

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Sebastian Hennig (* 1972 in Leipzig ) is a German painter , art critic and publicist .

Life

Sebastian Hennig is the son of the painter and cultural scientist Hans-Joachim Hennig and the art historian Gitta-Kristine Hennig . From 1988 to 1991 Hennig completed a remedial class and evening studies at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK Dresen) with Helmut Symmangk , Horst Weber and Regina Fleck . From 1992 to 1998 he studied painting and graphics at the HfBK Dresden. He completed his basic studies with Elke Hopfe , Siegfried Klotz and Wolfram Hänsch, the specialist classes with Claus Weidensdorfer and Max Uhlig , and completed his diploma with Ralf Kerbach . In addition to his freelance work as a visual artist, he wrote articles for various newspapers (e.g. Neues Deutschland , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Junge Freiheit , Dresden Latest News , Sächsische Zeitung , Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung , Islamische Zeitung ), magazines (e.g. Tumult . Quarterly for Consensus Disruption , Cato , Secession , Compact , peculiarly free , marginalia , palm tree graphic art , Ostragehege ), metamorphoses , preview and review and the radio. His books are published by Arnshaugk Verlag (Neustadt an der Orla), CC Meinhold und Söhne (Dresden, self-published) and Manuscriptum Verlag.

Hennig converted to Islam in the 1990s. Nonetheless, he takes a critical stance on the asylum issue, which largely coincides with the positions represented by Pegida and AfD, and he is also one of the first signatories of both the “Charter 2017” initiated by Susanne Dagen and the call for the Joint Declaration 2018 . In 2013 he appeared as a speaker on the subject of "Heimat" at the summer academy of the new right Institute for State Policy (IfS) .

Artistic and journalistic contributions

His journalistic activities include the subject areas of art and cultural policy . His activities as a publisher and art teacher concentrate as a member of the German Association of Trade Journalists and the Jugendkunstschule e. V. in Meissen.

With three classmates at the extended secondary school "Yuri Gagarin" in Radebeul, Hennig published one of the first self-administered school newspapers in the GDR in March 1990 and wrote polemical articles under the pseudonym "Raskolnikow". By April 1990 two issues of the hectographed magazine "greuz & gwär" had been published. This is followed by three more issues of the more artistic magazine "Carmilhan - panischaotisches Journal". Together with one of the editors, he founded Bubo-Verlag Radebeul in 1990, later edition bubo dresden, which published twenty-seven bibliophile books by 2010. Among them are two first publications of texts by the writer UEG Schrock and a bilingual edition (German / Czech) of the poem Máj by Karel Hynek Mácha with etchings by Ernst Lewinger (graphic artist) as well as works by Johann Georg Hamann , Ernst Jünger and Gottfried Keller .

Sebastian Hennig was one of the initiators of the Dresden artist group “Liebes Pferd” in 1991, which tried to undermine the ideological classifications in an irritating way with actions, exhibitions, films, magazines and artistic prints. About their self-image, the group says: "The love horse opposes the Asiatic felt and fat mentality of Joseph Beuys with a bloody and down-to-earth national culture. The protagonists of the avant-garde have the museums, art halls and concert halls with the products of their unscrupulous brains (sic!) Occupied. We say: Stop it! Art must not wither further into intellectual (sic!) brain and thrill. Our German art house should be a new acropolis, not a brothel place of intellectual fornication. " The symbol of this group of artists was an inverted symbol of the punk group Einstürzende Neubauten . On the one hand, the group was assigned to the right-wing intellectual spectrum; on the other, its actions were interpreted as more left-wing alternative social criticism. The group itself has always refused these assignments. The novel "89/90" (2015) by Peter Richter contains references to the group's actions by name. After a critical alarmist report by Angelika Unterlauf , which was broadcast on March 12, 1993 in the regional report of Sat 1, the group stopped its activities.

  • Sebastian Hennig: About art during the war
  • Sebastian Hennig: Creating Art Today - Enduring Values ​​of Contemporary Art
  • Exhibition: paintings and graphics by Sebastian Hennig in the Stadtgalerie Radebeul
  • Exhibition in the gallery Alte Schule Adlershof

His book “ PEGIDA - Walks over the Horizon” is written from the perspective of a participant and critical observer. The reviews of the book are partly benevolent, partly critical. Michael Beleites comments on this in his foreword on p. 22: "If we want to have this open conversation, we have to understand each other. And last but not least, we need a legible chronicle of the Pegida movement. One that is authentic, that of Someone comes who was there, but who was neither their organizer, nor serves the outrage expected by the left. The most suitable would be someone who in adulthood, after careful consideration, placed himself in the tradition of Islam and now the awakening of the 'patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West with great sympathy. There really is someone like that: His name is Sebastian Hennig and he is the author of this book. " Furthermore, it is said about him: "The strangest creature in the clique is the artist and columnist Sebastian Hennig. (...) The man who euphorically praised the opponents of an" Islamization of the West "himself became Islam some time ago converted, as if he had the ambition to serve as a teaching example for the thesis that Islamism and fascism are similar in some ways. " Hennig's Pegida Chronicle is "anything but a neutral view. It provides many more interior views of one of its followers, who also has the linguistic means for it." In the spring of 2018, Hennig described Pegida founder Lutz Bachmann as "currently Germany's most famous civil rights activist".

Hennig's conversations with the Thuringian AfD boss Björn Höcke were published by Manuscriptum Verlag in 2018 as an anthology ( never twice in the same river ).

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1997 Small gallery Hohenstein-Ernstthal
  • 1999 Freital Art Association V.
  • 2000 Richard Wagner Memorial Graupa
  • 2001 Skell Gallery, Schmiedeberg
  • 2003 Künstlerhof Roter Ochse, Schleusingen
  • 2008 Museum Karrasburg, Coswig
  • 2010 Grosssedlitz Baroque Garden
  • 2015 Radebeul City Gallery
  • 2016 KulturHaus Loschwitz Dresden

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999 4th Bautzner Herbstsalon, pro figura, self-portrait
  • 2000 5th Bautzner Herbstsalon, per figure, Janus
  • 2000 inspiration Moritzburg, baroque castle Moritzburg
  • 2001 Käthe-Kollwitz House, Moritzburg
  • 2002 Art from Dresden, LUX Gallery, Berlin
  • 2006 Pikanta Gallery in the Budde-Haus, Leipzig
  • 2007 Bienertmühle, Dresden
  • 2008 Riesa efau cultural center, Dresden
  • 2008 100 Saxon graphics
  • 2009 Refugium Medingen Gallery
  • 2010 Riesa efau cultural center, Dresden
  • 2011 Gallery under the mulberry tree, Badenheim near Mainz
  • 2013 International Art Symposium, Parzeńsko (PL)
  • 2015 Cultural Center Řehlovice (CZ)
  • 2017 Villa Bösenberg, Leipzig

Publications

  • Never twice in the same river: Björn Höcke in conversation with Sebastian Hennig. 2nd improved edition, Manuscriptum, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-944872-72-8 .
  • On the move in dark Germany. Verlag CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 2017, 176 pp., ISBN 978-3-943721-01-0
  • Do you know Theodor Fontane? Bertuch Verlag Weimar, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86397-055-0 ( bertuch-verlag.com ).
  • Ernst Lewinger - Floating in Connectedness (1931–2015). Arnshaugk Verlag Neustadt an der Orla, 2016, 223 pages, ISBN 3-944064-61-5 .
  • PEGIDA - Walks across the horizon - A chronicle. Arnshaugk Verlag, Neustadt an der Orla, 2015, 191 pages (with a foreword by Michael Beleites and caricatures by Peter Willweber). ISBN 978-3-944064-39-0 .
  • Buildings made of concrete, engraved in slate. Paul Burghardt and the slate engraving . In: Marginalia. Journal for Book Art and Bibliophilia, 1/2015 [6] .
  • The most Czech poet: Karel Hynek Mácha . In: Metamorphosen (magazine) (new episode) 7/2014, pp. 12–18.
  • The golden cage of art. In: Sezession 52, February 2013, ISSN  1611-5910 , pp. 20-23 ( sezession.de PDF).
  • Silke Höppner . In: Landesärztekammer (Ed.): From Adam to Zielonka - art collection of the Saxon State Medical Association. Inventory catalog of acquisitions 1996 - 2012. Dresden 2012, p. 94.
  • “Apollo's dwarf. Moritz August von Thümmel ” . In: “Palm tree. Literary Journal from Thuringia ”, 1/2011, pp. 147–151 [7] .
  • From head to hand to ear - the music of Günther Witschurke . In: plastic. The culture magazine from Central Germany, May / June / July 2011 issue, pp. 58–59 [8] .
  • Matthias Schroller's woodcuts . In: Matthias Schroller: Coupe et recoupe. Woodcuts and etchings. Dresden 2010: Goldenbogen, pp. 6–8, ISBN 978-3-932434-31-0 .
  • Books and Landscapes - Catalog for the exhibition at the Museum Karrasburg Coswig , 2008, ISBN 978-3-926370-82-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Art Bang
  2. ↑ New Germany
  3. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  4. ↑ saechsische.de
  5. ↑ cato-magazin.de
  6. ↑ sezession.de
  7. ↑ Strangely free: Authors. Accessed January 2, 2020 .
  8. ↑ [2] palm tree,
  9. ^ [3] Graphic Art
  10. ↑ [4] Eastern enclosure
  11. ↑ [5] Preview and Review
  12. ↑ Author: Sebastian Hennig. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Author: Sebastian Hennig. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Kulturhaus Loschwitz: Charter 2017 - On the events at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017. October 17, 2017, accessed on January 20, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Joint declaration 2018. In: https://www.erklaerung2018.de/ . Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  16. ^ Institute for State Policy (IfS): Chronicle 2013. Retrieved on June 11, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Jugendkunstschule eV Meißen. October 21, 2019, accessed October 21, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Sebastian Hennig: A conclusion and outlook. In: www.vorschau-rueckblick.de. Preview & Review, February 1, 2012, accessed November 12, 2019 .
  19. ↑ You are nothing, the "love horse" is everything , daily newspaper Sächsische Zeitung, Udo Lemke, edition of May 13th, 1992.
  20. ^ Peter Richter: "89/90: Roman" . Munich: Luchterhand 2015.
  21. ↑ liebes-pferd.eu
  22. ↑ On Art at Times of War, article from April 16, 2015 (accessed February 8, 2016).
  23. ^ Permanent values ​​of contemporary art, article from April 15, 2014 (accessed February 8, 2016).
  24. ^ Marc Zoellner: Art without instruction ( Memento from February 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 8, 2016).
  25. ↑ Sebastian Hennig: Views across the country - opening speech on August 17, 2012 in the Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof (PDF, accessed on February 8, 2016).
  26. ↑ Werner J. Patzelt : PEGIDA from the inside - November 2015 (accessed on February 8, 2016).
  27. ↑ Michael Bittner Michael Bittner - PEGIDA from the inside - October 2015 (accessed on February 8, 2016).
  28. ↑ Michael Bittner: The right slope of the Elbe . In: Compact . 1st September 2019.
  29. ↑ Uwe Hoffmann: Sebastian Hennig wrote a Pegida book that is difficult to digest. Dresden Latest News, December 15, 2015, accessed on November 11, 2019 .
  30. ↑ Sebastian Hennig: Diary Tenerife - Day 5 (April 10, 2018). Cato Magazine, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  31. ^ André Langhammer: The underground connection of people and things . In: Saxon newspaper . November 9, 1999.
  32. ↑ Anna-Maria Mende: An admirer of the art of the old masters . In: Saxon newspaper . December 31, 2001.
  33. ↑ jrg: Schleusingen - an old city with completely new views . Free Word, October 25, 2003.
  34. ↑ Birgit Andert: Painted essays in a new show in the Coswiger Museum . Saxon Newspaper, June 5, 2008.
  35. ^ Heinz Weißflog: With painterly instinct . In: Dresdner Latest News . June 10, 2008.
  36. ↑ Heinz Weißflog: Look, look again and again. In: Dresdner Latest News. June 20, 2015, accessed November 12, 2019 .
  37. ↑ Lilly Vostry: Women at the washing day. In: Saxon newspaper. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  38. ↑ wz: From the “Zwingerteich” to the “Frozen Tears” . In: Saxon newspaper . November 22, 2008.
  39. ^ Tomas Petzold: A new beginning in the tried and tested framework . In: Dresdner Latest News . November 7, 2009.
  40. ^ Thomas Gärtner: Walk with dark accompanying music. In: DNN. No. 209 of September 7, 2017, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Hennig, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, art critic and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig