Heinrich Hönich (1873 - 1957)
Heinrich Hönich
Heinrich Hönich, also known as Jindřich Hönich, was a Czech-German academic artist, graphic designer and teacher.
Hönich studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, and lived in Munich from 1906-1928, where he participated in many exhibitions. The artist was mainly engaged in landscape painting and graphics, but also created ex-libris and posters, worked in etching and lithography, was a skillful draughtsman and graphic artist.
From 1928 to 1945 Hönich worked as a professor at the Prague Academy of Art and raised a number of famous artists.
In 1944, Heinrich Hönich was included in the Gottbegnadet list of German artists compiled by the Imperial German Ministry of Public Education and Propaganda under the direction of Joseph Goebbels.
| Date and place of birt: | 5 october 1873, Dolní Hanychov, Czech Republic |
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| Date and place of death: | 5 september 1957, Gstadt am Chiemsee, Germany |
| Period of activity: | XIX, XX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Draftsman, Educator, Engraver, Graphic artist, Painter, Posterist |
| Genre: | Genre art, Landscape painting |
