ARTISTS / Modern art
Manfred Henninger

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

Manfred Henninger, co-founder of the "Stuttgart New Secession" in 1929, created exciting nature studies, still lifes and figure compositions with vibrant, vital strokes. Although he is generally counted among the artists of the expressive realism, his pictorial inventions are not to be classified in any common pigeonholes. His paintings show abstracting approaches, but never completely leave the representational representation behind. His paintings live from movement, light and color and radiate a timeless, Arcadian serenity. One senses the deep emotion of the artist before the mystery of creation, before the oneness of man and nature. To give form to the "river that flows through all living things, that occupies my mind since I breathe" was the artist's lifelong credo. 

Ascona, um 1943
50,6 × 71,6 cm   →

Bathers
73 × 90 cm   →

Bathers, 1945
54 × 72,5 cm   →

Bathers, 1966
34,5 × 52 cm   →

Bathers, 1970
44,5 × 62 cm   →

Bathers, 1975
43,8 × 62,5 cm   →

Bathers on rocks, 1981
80 × 100 cm   →

Bouquet, 1976
70 × 59 cm   →

Children bathing on Lake Geneva, 1933
40 × 48 cm   →

Cityscape (Stuttgart), 1950
73,5 × 100 cm   →

Group of figures, 1975
44 × 62,4 cm   →

Houses near Losone, um 1944
48,4 × 66,8 cm   →

Lake Maggiore in winter, 1943
48,4 × 66 cm   →

Landscape near Risa, 1949
38 × 56,5 cm   →

Max Eyth Lake, 1977
70 × 90 cm   →

Stuttgart castle square, um 1951
80 × 100 cm   →

untitled, 1960

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