Johannes Hänsch (1875 - 1945)

Johannes Hänsch

Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Hänsch was a German landscape painter and sculptor. Hänsch was born as the son of the sculptor Adolf Hänsch and his wife Johanna (nee Lehmann). He began his artistic training in his father's studio and initially continued it in the workshops of other sculptors before he decided to become a painter. On December 11, 1897, he began studying at the "Royal Academy of Fine Arts" in Berlin. As a freelance landscape painter, he was a member of the “Berlin Artists Association”. Since 1903, Hänsch has taken part in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition as well as in the exhibitions of the Association of Berlin Artists and in the Munich Glass Palace. His colorful painting showed a clear influence of Impressionism. He painted almost exclusively deserted landscapes from all parts of Germany. Paintings depicting human figures were a rare exception, but he did produce some mostly witty self-portraits.