Am Neckar. 1978.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right. 85,5 x 110 cm (33,6 x 43,3 in).

EXHIBITION: 26th annual exhibition of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim 1980, cat. no. 185, no illu. (with label on stretcher).

After World War I Manfred Henninger began to study at the Stuttgart art academy, among others, under Pötzelberger. During a summer stay in the Allgäu in 1921 he made many landscape illustrations; the same year the Kunsthalle Mannheim bought a self-portrait by Henninger. The artist continued his studies in winter 1922 at the Dresden Academy under Albiker and Kokoschka. He went on a trip to Berlin, where found access to renowned private collectors with the help of Meier-Graefes. For the first time Henninger saw paintings by Picasso in the house Mendelson as well as the collection of Impressionism and Cézanne at Cassirer, he also visited Max Liebermann. Together with Manfred Pahl, Wilhelm Geyer, Alfred Lehmann and Gustav Schopf, Henninger initiated the "Stuttgarter Neue Sezession" in 1929. After first success, the artist left Germany for political reasons in 1933. At first he went to Switzerland, than to the island of Ibiza. Having been called to teach at the State Academy he returned to Stuttgart in 1949. In 1967/68 Henninger was a guest at the Villa Massimo in Rome, a large retrospective took place in the 'Würrtembergische Kunstverein' in Stuttgart in 1975. [KH]