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.