Carl Friedrich Hennig (also known as Karl Henig), painter and printmaker, was born in Dresden, Germany on 28 February 1871. He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and later under the painter Heinrich von Zügel at the Munich Academy. He worked in both Dachau and Gronau. Hennig was included in exhibitions at the International Art Exhibition in Dresden, the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf, and the Glass Palace in Munich.

Carl Friedrich Hennig died in Handorf, Germany in 1959.