Herwarth Walden . German expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines, whose real name was Georg Lewin . He is widely recognized as one of the most important discoverers and promoters of German avant-garde art in the early 20th century ( Expressionism , Futurism , Dadaism, and Magical Realism ).
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 1 Studies
- 2 Trajectory
- 3 Exile
- 4 Death
- 2 Works
- 3 Sources
Biographical synthesis
Born on 16 September as as 1879 in Berlin , Germany .
Studies
He studied composition and piano at the musical academies of Berlin and Florence . But his interest spanned all the arts, so he became a musician, composer, critic, and gallery owner. He discovered, sponsored and promoted many young artists, still unknown, of different styles and tendencies. Later some of them became very famous: Oskar Kokoschka , Maria Uhden and Georg Schrimpf , among others.
Trajectory
Husband of Else Lasker-Schüler (1901-1911), he founded the magazine Der Sturm (1910-1932) and its subsidiaries, which together with Franz Pfemfert’s Die Aktion, was the main organ of the expressionist movement. These consisted of a publishing company and a newspaper, founded in 1910, to which Walden added a gallery two years later. He opened a major art gallery in which he promoted avant-garde German and foreign artists such as Vasili Kandinsky . He is the author of novels, expressionist dramas ( Mujer , 1917; Pulión , 1918) and essays and articles on literary and artistic subjects.
Exile
The economic depression of the 1930s, and the subsequent rise of National Socialism, compromised his activities, and Walden fled to the Soviet Union in 1932. He worked in Moscow as a teacher and editor. His sympathy for the artistic avant-garde made him suspicious before the Stalinist government. He frequently had to justify his approach to modern art – without success.
Death
Sentenced to deportation in 1941, he died under dark circumstances on October 31 , 1941 , Saratov , Germany .
Plays
- Der Sturm (Magazine, 1910 – 1932)
- Dafnislieder für Gesang und Klavier (Songs, 1910)
- Das Buch der Menschenliebe (Novel, 1916)
- Die Härte der Weltenliebe ( Novel , 1917)
- Kind (Drama, 1918)
- Menschen (Drama, 1918)
- Unter den Sinnen (Novel, 1919)
- Die neue Malerei (Essays, 1920)
- Glaube (Drama, 1920)
- Einblick in Kunst ( Essay , 1920)
- Sünde (Drama, 1920)
- Die Beiden (Drama, 1920)
- Erste Liebe (Drama, 1920)
- Letzte Liebe (Drama, 1920)
- Im Geschweig der Liebe ( Poems , 1925)
- Vulgär-Expressionismus (Essay, 1938)
