Ernest Hennings

Martin Ernest Hennings (February, 1886 - 1956) was an American artist.

Born in Pennsgrove, New Jersey, and raised in Chicago by German immigrant parents, he became a highly recognized painter and founder of The Taos Society of Artists.

He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and then for five years at the Art Institute of Chicago from which he graduated with honors. After working six years as a commercial artist, he enrolled in 1914 at the Munich Academy in Germany where he learned to paint in the style of academic realism.

Martin travelled extensively in Germany and Europe, Morocco and Mexico, exhibiting at one man shows in America and New Mexico. He received many awards in his lifetime both in America and in Europe.