Also known as At the Rushy Pool, when published as a photogravure for the sumptuous English portfolio Pictorial Photographs: A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1895, this scene shows a pleasing composition of a pond lined with reeds, with homes or the edge of a village on the background horizon.

Hugo Henneberg: 1863-1918

Vienna 1863 – 1918 Vienna

Henneberg studied physics, chemistry, astronomy and mathematics in Vienna and Jena from 1882 to 1888. In 1888 he received his doctorate in physics. From 1887 he worked with photography. After traveling to the USA, Egypt and Greece he became a member of the Amateur Photographers’ Club (from 1893 Vienna Camera Club) in 1891. In 1894 he was accepted into the Linked Ring London. Inspired by the rubber prints of R. Demachy, Henneberg teamed up with the amateur photographers H. Kühn and H. Watzek. These three, who became legendary as the Vienna Trifolium (cloverleaf), perfected the technique of rubber printing and thus created a new medium for the art photography movement. In 1897 the Trifolium exhibited together for the first time. In the same year, the Hamburg Society for the Promotion of Amateur Photography accepted Henneberg as a corresponding member. From 1898 onwards he increasingly concentrated on painting and graphics. In 1910 he gave up photography for good. (1.)

1. Biography: Hugo Henneberg: Kunstphotographie Um 1900: Die Sammlung Ernst Juhl; Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1989, Lit.: Auer 1985, I, n. p.; exhibition catalogue Vienna 1983, II, p. 127; Harker 1979, p. 162; Naef 1978, pp. 312-318; Kempe 1977, p. 143; Brevern 1971, p. 35; exhibition catalogue Essen 1964, pp. 19-21; Thieme/Becker, XVI, 1923, p. 391; Matthies-Masuren 1902: p. 230