A Private Collection of Danish Porcelain
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“Gerhard Henning was a sculptor. He was born 05.27.1880 in Stockholm and died 16.09.1967 in Hell, his urn is in Copenhagen (Holmen). His name was changed from Nilsson in 1885. His parents were August Henning and Alma Sophia Göthberg. He married Christine Bissen, born 02.12.1889 in Copenhagen, died 1.7.1962 in Copenhagen. Marriage cancelled in 1914. Second marriage with weaver Gerda Heydorn on 26.02.1918 at Frederiksberg. She was born 03.02.1891 in Frederiksberg and died 29.6.1951 in Hell. 3rd marriage with Sidsel Katrine Kristensen on 10.03.1966 in Hell. She was born 03.08.1901 in Bøvling, died 03.14.1982.
Gerhard Henning met the Swedish painter Ivar Arosenius on Slöjdföreningens School in Gothenburg 1897-98, and this friendship was of great importance for the young Henning that to about 1907 preferably worked as a painter and graphic artist in a style that, like circuit around Arosenius, was inspired by Aubrey Beardsley. In 1909, Henning was employed at the Royal. Porcelain Manufactory, and thus got the plastic work a greater weight. For the factory, he performed refined small groups with ornamental decoration in the glaze, stylistically influenced by French 1700's art. But after being a friend of Kai Nielsen and with him studied sculpture, preferably at the Glyptotek, changed his form expression. It was especially C. Meunier, Auguste Rodin, Aristide Maillol, A.-J. Dalou and some of the ancient works that made an impression, and gradually grew a more personal and monumental expressions forward in his sculptures. Henning interested in early ancient poetry, including for Ovid's Metamorphoses, and from there he got the inspiration for numerous small groups of love, Cupid and Psyche, Pygmalion and Galatea, etc. But the center of, s work had throughout life the naked female figure, which he first worked with in society and opposition with Kai Nielsen. , S statuette Lying girl from 1914, so the basis for Kai Nielsen Leda without the swan, again in the long term, by Kai Nielsen's death in 1924, gave Henning courage to try out the large format. The range of, s major female figures began with the position in terms of bold Danae 1927, quickly followed by the lush bulging Standing girl from 1928-29. But he changed sculpture style around 1930 with Modern girl who is a slimmer type with short hair in contrast to the tidily arranged antique inspired, heavy hairstyles. Well into the 1930s, he fitted the naked female figures wearing shoes and socks, detailer, he later omitted. Sitting girl from 1937-38 built up over a complex diagonal motive, but appears nonetheless to weight in a calm, harmonious balance. Lying girl from 1942-43 has the same mix of job complexity and harmony. , S last major sculpture, Susanne 1964, he had worked for 10 years, and the starting point was a motif used in several Pygmalion and Galatea sketches from 1919-20, he repeatedly had later taken up. , S feel for the shape curve and excitement for the lush gravity and the complex balance that make themselves known in his model drawings and in his three-dimensional shapes, making him one of the weightiest sculptors of the female figure in Danish sculpture
Henning was educated at the technical school in Copenhagen. (H. Grønvold) 1892-94; in pictures and learn, Copenhagen. (master painter Schübeler) 1895 in Helsingborg and Gothenburg 1896-98; undersigned on Slöjdfören. Sk., Gothenburg winter of 1897-98; drawing and painter school Valand, Gothenburg (Carl Wilhelmson) 1898-99, 1900-02; on Konstnärsförb. School, Sth. (Richard Bergh) autumn 1899; self-taught as a sculptor.
Henning did a lot of travelling including Sth. 1880-82, 1899, 1907, 1918, 1925; Copenhagen. 1882-94; Helsingborg 1894-96; Gothenburg 1896-98, 1900-02, 1904; Ernest Thiel's Artist Home, Nail Inge 1900; Italy (Rome, Subiaco, Florence) in 1903; Paris 1904; Vik 1905-09; Copenhagen. 1905, 1908, residing in Copenhagen. 1909; Värmland 1912; Italy in 1920; London 1932.
Henning was employed by the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory October 1909-14, 1920-25; msg. of Akad.rådet 1937-38, 1964, 1966; the best. Ny Carlsberg Mouse. scholarship; of Resistance artistic ext. 1945; of the off. Come on. for Exhaust. by then. Art Abroad.”
Source: Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 20./22.11.1920
Production Number: 1238
Height: 43 cm
Width: : 26 cm
Depth: 26 cm
Motif: The Princess on the Pea
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1911
Remarks: The piece was awarded the First Class
Medal at the Paris Salon where it was
considered to be one of the finest
pieces of European porcelain of the
times. Although for sure more than 9,
but only few copies were made at all.
Most exclusive bonboniere.
KRC0894
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 07.08.1929
Production Number: 2409
Height: 30 cm
Width: : 22 cm
Depth: 16 cm
Motif: The Nightingale
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1924
KRC0897
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 08.05.1976
Production Number: 1664
Height: 20 cm
Width: : 22 cm
Depth: 16 cm
Motif: Fairy Tale III
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1914
KRC0904
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 25.11.1919
Production Number: 1010
Height: 31.5 cm
Width: : 11 cm
Depth: 11 cm
Motif: Anne Marie Figurine
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1908
Remarks: Figurine on extra pidestal. Head
shaking mechanism
KRC1202
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 11.04.1962
Production Number: 2109
Height: 37 cm
Width: : 23 cm
Depth: 16.5 cm
Motif: The kiss on the hannd
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1920
KRC0895
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 26.11.1956
Production Number: 2274
Height: 22 cm
Width: : 23 cm
Depth: 16 cm
Motif: Ali and Peribanu
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1922
KRC0896
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 12.03.1992
Production Number: 2423
Height: 19 cm
Width: : 19 cm
Depth: 10 cm
Motif: Susanna
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1924
KRC0898
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 1957
Production Number: 2417
Height: 21 cm
Width: : 24 cm
Depth: 15 cm
Motif: Venus
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1924
KRC0899
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 20.11.1930
Production Number: 2413
Height: 30 cm
Width: : 12 cm
Depth: 10 cm
Motif: Moon Girl
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1924
KRC0900
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 04.11.1981
Production Number: 1119
Height: 27 cm
Width: : 22 cm
Depth: 16 cm
Motif: Faun and Nymphe
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1909
KRC0901
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 19.03.1956
Production Number: 1476
Height: 22 cm
Width: : 12,5 cm
Depth: 14,5 cm
Motif: Fairy Tale I
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1913
KRC0902
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 20.10.1970
Production Number: 1586
Height: 23 cm
Width: : 16 cm
Depth: 14 cm
Motif: Fairy Tale II
Remarks: Overglaze, fan repaired
Model from: 1913
KRC0903
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 15.08.1972
Production Number: 2162
Height: 34 cm
Width: : 21 cm
Depth: 14 cm
Motif: Chinese Couple
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1921
KRC0905
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 17.10.1960
Production Number: 1188.1 (faun), 1188.2 (stand)
Height: 16 cm
Width: : 12 cm
Depth: 9,5 cm
Motif: Weeping Faun (on stand)
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1910
KRC0906
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 25.06.1956
Production Number: 2428
Height: 33.5 cm
Width: : 9 cm
Depth: 9 cm
Motif: Girl Bathing
Remarks: Overglaze
Model from: 1924
KRC0907
Artist: Gerhard Henning
Date of Production: 18.06.1952
Production Number: 1244
Height: 18 cm
Width: : 15 cm
Depth: 10 cm
Motif: Girl with mirror
Remarks: Overglaze, repair to mirror
Model from: 1911
KRC0908
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