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,... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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. Hensche... Read full biography
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. Hensche taught students in the tradition of Hawthorne to focus on color relationships and paint in... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (17)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Hensche on Painting
1998
Robichaux, John
96 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The Art of Seeing and Painting
1988
Hensche, Henry
101 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947