Josef Hermann Hendel (1897 - 1993)

Josef Hermann Hendel

Josef Hermann Hendel was a German painter who painted mainly in pen and ink, but also produced many woodcuts, etchings, watercolours and oil paintings.

Josef Hermann Hendel studied under the Impressionists Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl and Adolf Schinnerer, as well as the fresco painter Franz Klemmer. He was a master pupil of the portrait painter Hugo von Habermann. Already in 1924 his exhibits could be seen next to the works of Mohoy-Nadja in the Goltz Gallery. His woodcuts hit the headlines in the late 1920s. A number of pen and ink drawings that he wanted to exhibit at Munich's Haus der Kunst in 1938 were rejected as too fanciful, after which the sensitive artist destroyed the works. In the post-war period, the artist earned a living by working for daily newspapers and magazines.