Albert Hennig, Winternacht

Albert Hennig, Winternacht
Albert Hennig, Winter Night
Snowy landscape with some houses and a church in the pale moonlight of the night, mixed media (fibre pen and watercolour) on paper, signed and dated "AHennig (19)70" at lower left, mounted on backing board, sheet dimensions approx. 24 x 14.3 cm. Artist's info: Germ. Painter, photographer and graphic artist (1907 Leipzig - 1998 Zwickau), studied 1932-33 with a scholarship at the Bauhaus Dessau/Berlin with Joost Schmidt, Mies van der Rohe, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Josef Albers, afterwards unemployed, 1935-45 conscripted as construction worker, after 1945 founding member of the group "Bildender Künstler" at the Kulturbund Zwickau, from 1952 member of the Verband Bildender Künstler (VBK) of the GDR, because of disagreement with dogmatic cultural functionaries, 1952-72 worked as a concrete builder, in his spare time produced a significant body of work in the Bauhaus tradition, from 1972 freelance and increasing recognition of his work in the GDR too, received numerous awards, including the Max Pechstein Prize and the Federal Cross of Merit, worked in Zwickau , source: Vollmer, Eisold "Maler in der DDR" and Internet.