Henry Hensche, Massachussetts/Germany (1899 - 1992)
Henry Hensche was active/lived in Massachusetts, Louisiana / Germany. Henry Hensche is known for landscape, still life, and portrait painting, art education.
Modernist Landscape
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
Painting Size: 20 x 24 in.
Frame Size: 26 3/4 x 30 3/4 in.
Created in Circa 1960s
CONDITION
Excellent
PROVENANCE
Private Collection from Massachusetts
Henry Hensche (1899-1992)
According to Ellis Island and the Art Institute of Chicago records, Hensche was born on February 25, 1899 in Germany and came to the United States via Antwerp, Belgium, arriving on March 3, 1909 at Ellis Island aboard the S.S. Kroonland at age 10, with is father Fred and sister Erna. His mother had died before he was 2 years old.
Henry Hensche was a teacher at the Cape School of Art at Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he taught for more than fifty years, beginning 1935 and painted for more than seventy years. He carried on the tradition of Charles Hawthorne, the School's founder, whose untimely death in 1930 closed the Cape Cod School of Art, where Hensche had been a student and assistant of Hawthorne.
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good condition