Albert Hennig, Abstrahierte Figuren
Colourful composition of abstracted figures on a light background, pencil ...

Albert Hennig, Abstrahierte Figuren
Colourful composition of abstracted figures on a light background, pencil and watercolour, signed and dated "AHennig (19)60" lower left, small holes in the corners from drawing pins, unframed, sheet measures approx. 21 x 29.5 cm, enclosed catalogue of the sales exhibition "Albert Hennig Aquarelle und Pastelle" of the Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Leipzig from 1992. Artist's info: German painter, photographer and graphic artist. 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 also in the GDR increasing recognition of his work, 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.