Willi Henning-Hennings

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The "seated woman" in Rostock

Willi Henning-Hennings (born September 8, 1888 in East Frisia , † December 25, 1974 in Bad Doberan ) was a German painter, sculptor and teacher.

Life

Willi Henning-Hennings was the son of a master carpenter and architect. From May 1916 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the class of Balthasar Schmitt , at the Karlsruhe Art Academy, at the School of Applied Arts in Bremen as well as in Rome and Paris. His teachers included u. a. Franz von Stuck and Karl Albiker .

He lived and worked in Dresden, Neubrandenburg and Worpswede. The writer Hermann Löns was a close friend. From 1926 Henning-Hennings lived in Bad Doberan, where he worked as an art teacher at the Friderico-Francisceum grammar school from 1927 to 1945 . He was involved in major sculptural works such as the Meißner Dom or the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig.

His works also include sculptures in public spaces, such as the bronze female figure in front of the former university gynecological clinic on Rostocker Doberaner Straße. This former fountain figure dates from 1936 and shows the "woman as the source of life".

Willi Henning-Hennings portrayed many famous personalities. In the exhibition Contemporary Mecklenburg Painters in the Mecklenburg State Museum in Schwerin in 1939, the works zurückakt , Worpsweder Brücke and fishermen's houses in the dunes were shown.

He formed a resistance group in Doberan, with which he helped many prisoners of war and slave labor.

After the end of the Second World War , he mainly dealt with sacred art and the restoration of altars.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4107 .
  • Alexander Schacht: Sculpture in public space in Rostock and Warnemünde . In: Bernfried Lichtnau (ed.): Fine arts in Mecklenburg and Pomerania from 1880 to 1950: Art processes between the center and the periphery . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-061-0 , pp. 409-410 ( Google Book ).

Web links

Commons : Willi Henning-Hennings  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the Munich register : Charlottenburg , also in the short biography in the catalog for the Schwerin exhibition in 1939.
  2. ↑ 05531 Willi Hennings, Matrikelbuch 1884–1920 , accessed on September 7, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Contemporary Mecklenburg painters - associated with the Franz Bunke Memorial Exhibition and Paul Wallat's Birthday Exhibition . Mecklenburgisches Landesmuseum Schwerin, October 29 to November 19, 1939, see above.
    Details on the exhibited works: Nude from the back , 1930, oil - Worpsweder Bridge , 1938, red chalk - fishermen's houses in the dunes , 1938, watercolor.
  4. ^ Hermann Langer: Life under the swastika: Everyday life in Mecklenburg 1932-1945. Temmen, Bremen / Rostock 1996, ISBN 3-86108-291-8 , p. 200.
personal data
SURNAME Henning-Hennings, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hennings, Wilhelm; Hennings, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostfriesland
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1974
Place of death Bad Doberan