Ernest Martin Hennings

Ernest Martin Hennings (Jr. ) ( born February 5, 1886 in Penns Grove, New Jersey, † 29 May 1956 in Taos (New Mexico)) was a German -American painter of the American Southwest.

Life

Hennings came in 1886 as the first son of Ernst Martin Hennings Sr. ( 1857-1938 ) and Louise Hennings, born Dunklau ( 1863-1926 ), in Penns Grove, New Jersey to the world. The parents were a few years earlier immigrated from Wessel Buren, Schleswig -Holstein and were married in Chicago in 1884. The family two years later moved back to Chicago.

Hennings visited five years, the Art Institute of Chicago and then operate commercial painting. In 1912 he enrolled at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. In 1915, after the start of the First World War, he returned to America.

1917 visited Hennings first Taos, New Mexico, where the landscape and the Pueblo Indians living there inspired him and his future style and his motives influenced decisively. In 1921 Hennings permanently from Chicago to Taos in 1924 a member of the Taos Society of Artists. He painted for the rest of his career, Scenes from the Life of the Southwest.

He died in 1956 in Taos.

Hennings was in 1926 married to Helen Otte ( 1893-1985 ) and had a daughter.

Trivia

George Bush Sr. escorted during his vice-presidency and presidency with " Passing By ", a loan from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Ernest Martin Hennings an image ' to the White House. Under President George Bush Jr. hung in the Oval Office of the White House, Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Koerner 's " A Charge to Keep ." Both Western painters have roots in Schleswig-Holstein Dithmar.