8043 - Henninger, Manfred

Henninger, Manfred Ships in the Harbor; Bathers ("Riva") 2 sheets of watercolor, 1 sheet in pencil, on handmade paper, mounted on cardboard or on vellum. 1934/65. 47 x 63.3 and 48 x 66 cm. Both signed in the lower right corner in pencil or blue ballpoint pen as “M. Henninger" or "Manfred Henninger" and dated; 1 sheet titled; both bearing the oval estate stamp on the reverse, where they are handwritten with the numbers "A20245" and "A20858" and marked "P.H.". Vibrant, expressive watercolors rendered in bold, expressive colors. Manfred Henninger studied at the Stuttgart Academy from 1920 to 1928, and later in Dresden under Oskar Kokoschka. In 1929, he was a co-founder of the Stuttgart Neue Sezession, but was forced to flee to Switzerland in 1933, then to Ibiza, before eventually emigrating to Ticino. In 1949, he was appointed to the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, where he served as rector from 1955 to 1957. Henninger is one of the artists of the “Lost Generation,” whose art was branded as “degenerate” by the Nazis and who were later unjustly consigned to oblivion. Provenance: Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia - Please request condition reports for the lots, as the condition is usually not listed in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.