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876 - Albert Hennig, Young Lady, seated figure in gouache, Bauhaus student and Zwickau painter

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Albert Hennig, Young Lady, seated figure in gouache, Bauhaus student and Zwickau painter (1907 Leipzig - 1998 Zwickau), gouache on cardboard, signed lower right. A young woman sits on a low bench in a blue-green short-sleeved top and a dark red skirt, barefoot, her upper body slightly inclined and her head lowered; she holds a red object in both hands, a shallow bowl standing beside her on the bench. The ground laid in flat areas of broken brown, grey and olive green, the figure built up from a few broad planes of colour, the contours unemphasised. Age-appropriate good condition, stained. Image 28 x 21 cm (HxW), behind glass, framed, frame bumped, frame width 3 cm. Albert Hennig came from a Leipzig working-class family and found his way to art through photography. From 1932 to 1933 he studied on a scholarship at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin under Joost Schmidt, Walter Peterhans, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers, which makes him one of the last graduates before the school was closed. After 1945 he was a founding member of the group of visual artists at the Zwickau Kulturbund; because of conflicts with cultural policy he worked as a concrete builder from 1952 to 1972 and only afterwards returned to freelance work. In 1991 he received the Max Pechstein Prize and in 1996 the Federal Cross of Merit; since 2008 his artistic estate has been held by the Kunstsammlungen Zwickau. German Description Albert Hennig, Junge Dame, sitzende Figur in Gouache, Bauhaus-Schüler und Maler aus Zwickau (1907 Leipzig – 1998 Zwickau), Gouache/Karton, unten rechts signiert. Auf einer niedrigen Bank sitzt eine junge Frau in blaugrünem Kurzarmoberteil und dunkelrotem Rock, barfuß, den Oberkörper leicht vorgeneigt und den Kopf gesenkt; in beiden Händen hält sie einen roten Gegenstand, auf der Bank neben ihr steht eine flache Schale. Der Grund in gebrochenem Braun, Grau und Olivgrün flächig angelegt, die Figur aus wenigen breiten Farbflächen aufgebaut, die Konturen unbetont. Altersgemäß guter Zustand, fleckig. Darstellung 28 x 21 cm (HxB), hinter Glas, gerahmt, Rahmen bestoßen, Rahmenbreite 3 cm. Albert Hennig stammte aus einer Leipziger Arbeiterfamilie und kam über die Fotografie zur Kunst. Von 1932 bis 1933 studierte er mit einem Stipendium am Bauhaus in Dessau und Berlin bei Joost Schmidt, Walter Peterhans, Wassily Kandinsky und Josef Albers und gehört damit zu den letzten Absolventen vor der Schließung der Schule. Nach 1945 war er Gründungsmitglied der Gruppe Bildender Künstler beim Kulturbund Zwickau; wegen Konflikten mit der Kulturpolitik arbeitete er von 1952 bis 1972 als Betonbauer und war erst danach wieder freischaffend tätig. 1991 erhielt er den Max-Pechstein-Preis, 1996 das Bundesverdienstkreuz; sein künstlerischer Nachlass liegt seit 2008 in den Kunstsammlungen Zwickau.

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