(b ?1630–40; d after 1707). German ivory- and wood-carver, wax modeller and miniaturist. He was the foremost master of small-scale sculpture active in northern Germany and Denmark in the Baroque period, basing his work on pictorial and sculptural models from the earlier 17th century. The strong influence on his sculpture of the work of Artus Quellinus (i) and other sculptors in the circle of Rubens, and of Georg Petel and his followers, suggests that Henne made a study journey through the Netherlands and southern Germany. From 1663 to 1665 he worked in Hamburg, where he made oval ivory portrait reliefs of the local patricians. These works, such as the Portrait of a Man (Hamburg, Mus. Kst & Gew.), represent the sitters half-length, turned at an angle to the viewer, and with the features, hair and draperies treated with meticulous realism. Henne also executed portrait medallions and small-scale single figures and groups with mythological or religious subjects. His ivory figure of the Mourning St John (Hamburg, Mus. Kst & Gew.), with its clumsy draperies and unconvincing depiction of emotion, is representative.

• Henne, Joachim
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