Albert Henrich

Albert Henrich (*19 June 1899 in Düsseldorf; †5 May 1971 ibid.) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf School and New Objectivity who specialized in still lifes, landscapes and portraits.

Henrich began his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1913, which he temporarily interrupted due to military service in the First World War and completed in 1919. He studied under Adolf Maennchen, Carl Ederer, Willy Spatz and Ludwig Keller. In the course of his career, Henrich undertook study trips to North Africa, Italy, Spain, southern France and Greece. He was also a member of the “Gilde 1919” and the Niederrhein artists’ group. He received the Dürer Prize from the city of Nuremberg for his work in 1931 and the Cornelius Prize from the city of Düsseldorf in 1942.

During the National Socialist era, Henrich was a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and regularly presented his works at the Great German Art Exhibitions in Munich from 1938 to 1944. Fifteen of his works found buyers, including Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels.

After the Second World War, Henrich was one of the co-founders of the Düsseldorf Artists’ Group in 1949, which he chaired for a long time. He maintained a close friendship with the painter Carl Cohnen.