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Albert Hennig "Albert Hennig. 10 photographs of the Bauhaus artist ". 1930s. Albert Hennig1907 Leipzig - 1998 Zwickau Silver gelatin prints on baryta paper. Portfolio with 10 prints from 1978. With a cover sheet and a short biography of A. Hennig. Each signed "Hennig" or "Albert Hennig" on the verso in lead or black fibre pencil, respectively, and with the artist's or estate stamp, as well as titled and mostly dated, partly with further annotations. Each mounted at the upper corners on a backing. Unique copy. In the original winged cardboard folder. With the works: a) "Clochard". 1932 .b) "Unemployed counts his support money". 1932. c) "Rodelberg Die Warze" 1930. verso with further stamp "Barbara Meyer-Radke, Naumburg"? d) "Auf Raab (Dalmatia )". 1939. e) "Conversation at the Litfass Column" . 1932. dated 1929 on verso. f) "Jewish family on Notre Dame, Paris" . 1932. g) Street scene, Paris. 1932. h) "Dubrovnik (Dalmatia )". 1939. i) "Parking lot of the unemployed" . 1932. j) "Roofscape, Leipzig" . 1932. inscribed on verso "Leipzig (Turnerstraße)". as well as dated "1929". Predominantly illustrated in: Wolfgang Hesse (ed.), "Das Auge des Arbeiters. Arbeiterfotografie und Kunst um 1930". Leipzig 2014. Prints partly with slight cupping and surface irregularities (only visible in grazing light).Corners and edges partly minimally bumped, there with tiny colour losses. Isolated with inconspicuous scratch marks. c) with a crease trace at lower left. corner (ca. 2,8 cm).The portfolio slightly rubbed and with a water stain upper right. Dimensions: print each ca. 24 x 16 cm, sub. ca. 31,5 x 22 cm, portfolio 32 x 23,5 cm. Albert Hennig 1907 Leipzig - 1998 Zwickau After occupation with photography in the 1920s then 1932-33 training at the Bauhaus Dessau a. Berlin a. with Mies van der Rohe a. Wassily Kandinsky.1934-45 conscripted as construction worker. 1948-51 secretary in the Kulturbund, then senior advisor at the council of the district Chemnitz, 1953-72 work as concrete builder. From 1973 freelance painter and graphic artist. 1996 Federal Cross of Merit.

dresden, Germany