1894 | born in Backnang; confectionery trade in his parents' business in Tübingen |
1914 | voluntary military service |
1919 | Studies at the Stuttgart Art Academy under Pötzelberger, among others |
1921 | Stay in the Allgäu: numerous landscapes; in the same year the Kunsthalle Mannheim acquires a self-portrait by Henninger |
1922 | Continues his studies at the Dresden Academy with Albiker and Kokoschka; acquaintance with the work of Picasso and the Impressionists; visits Max Liebermann |
1926 | Solo exhibition of his works in Stuttgart |
1929 | Founds the "Stuttgart New Secession" with Manfred Pahl, Wilhelm Geyer, Alfred Lehmann and Gustav Schopf |
1933 | emigrates to Switzerland, then to Ibiza: he creates about 300 oil paintings |
1936 | as a result of the Spanish Civil War, moves to Ronco in Ticino |
1941 | Occupation with ceramics |
1949 | Appointment to the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart |
1961 | Retirement; illustrations for Ovid's "Metamorphoses", first ballet drawings as well as drawings and pastels for the "Georgica" by Virgil |
1967/68 | Guest at the Villa Massimo in Rome |
1975 | Retrospective at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart |
1986 | died in Stuttgart |