Walter Henschel from Hain

Walter Henschel von Hain (actually Walter Henschel , in his signature Henschel vom Hain ; born October 16, 1883 in Lübeck , † late 1945 near Berlin ) was a German landscape and portrait painter.

Life

After attending school in Lübeck, Walter Henschel apprenticed to a master belt maker . His journeyman's piece was a four-armed Advent candlestick made of brass . After completing his apprenticeship, Henschel tried to gain a foothold as an artist, which he only partially succeeded in doing.

After 1900 Walter Henschel took the stage name Walter Henschel vom Hain (also von Hain ), which referred to the place of his childhood in Lübeck. Now his signature was also expressed: either Henschel vom Hain or HvH. In official documents he bears the name Walter Henschel von Hain , but in his signature he wrote Henschel vom Hain .

With landscape and flower motifs, Walter Henschel vom Hain tried to tie in with the tastes of the public in his home town of Lübeck and thus keep himself afloat financially. He increasingly succeeded in doing this, also because he turned more and more to portraiture. After 1914 Henschel vom Hain had to do military service; this brought his artistic work to a standstill. At the end of the First World War, Henschel vom Hain turned back to his profession. He went abroad for a few years. So he stayed in Spain for a long time, where he earned his income by painting portraits at the royal court. He then moved through Italy in the 1920s. A number of oil paintings and watercolors with interesting cityscapes (Naples) or everyday scenes from the lives of simple people were created here. At the end of the 1920s, Henschel returned to Germany from the Hain. He took up residence in Berlin. The sale of many of his pictures enabled him to lead a middle-class life, especially since his style met the taste of the time. So he was less successful at exhibitions than in sales.

After his first marriage had failed, he married Maria Gronewald in 1941, widowed Levy, and took up residence at Kantstrasse 61 in Berlin. In the years after 1933, Henschel vom Hain painted a series of Berlin cityscapes as well as the Nazi greats from his Charlottenburg environment. In 1944 the house on Kantstrasse was destroyed by bombs. The Henschel couple had moved to Senftenberg months before the bombs . Maria Gronewald's daughter, Hildegard Levy, and her partner (from April 1945) Hans Weiß , who was second mayor and city councilor of Senftenberg at the time , belonged to the household there .

In 1931 he received a patent for a “device for the mechanical tying of parcels etc. like. "

literature

• Dressler's art manual . Second volume. The book of the living German artists, archeologists, art scholars and art writers. Visual arts. 9th year, Verlag Karl Curtius, Berlin 1930, p. 402 ("Henschel von Hain, Walter, M [aler]. Berlin W Kurfürstendamm 242".).

Web links

• Self-portrait (1919), on schmidt-auktionen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin, A Rep. 243-04, Reich Chamber of Fine Arts - Landesleitung Berlin, p. 1415 ( Findbuch ).
2. ↑ Patent DE588480C .