DER STURM (English: THE STORM) marked the emergence into modern art and an attempt to unite the international avant-garde.
DER STURM (English: THE STORM) marked the emergence into modern art and an attempt to unite the international avant-garde.
For the first time ever, eighteen women STURM artists representing Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity will be presented in a comprehensive exhibition featuring around 280 works of art.
For the first time ever, eighteen women STURM artists representing Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity will be presented in a comprehensive exhibition featuring around 280 works of art.
The term “avant-garde” refers to those artists whose work is ahead of its time and challenges conventional perceptions.
DER STURM (English: THE STORM) marked the emergence into modern art and an attempt to unite the international avant-garde. Originally founded in 1910 as a magazine for the promotion of Expressionist art, the name STURM quickly became a trademark: its editor, the writer and gallery owner Herwarth Walden, established the STURM Academy, STURM soirées, a STURM stage, and the STURM Gallery, at which, among others, Marc Chagall, Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee exhibited their works. What is less well known, however, is that Walden also had great respect for female artists – around one fourth of the artists presented at his gallery were women. The SCHIRN devotes the first large-scale thematic exhibition to these STURM women. It will assemble more than 280 works of art by female artists of Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and New Objectivity. The result is a somewhat different overview of the most important art movements in Berlin in the early 20th century. Like their male counterparts at the time, works by some of these women artists were exhibited for the first time in Germany: among the most prominent are Sonia Delaunay, Alexandra Exter, Natalia Gontcharova, Else Lasker-Schüler, Gabriele Münter, and Marianne von Werefkin. They are joined by further female artists who have been unjustifiably forgotten, or have been neglected by the public. The exhibition at the SCHIRN will be the first extensive presentation of art by the STURM women, bringing it closer to a broader public.
The exhibition is over, but the free digitorial still provides you with background information about the key exhibition aspects. Learn more about the Storm Woman!
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The audio tour is presented by award-winning actresse Johanna Wokalek. Among others, she is known for her acclaimed roles in “Barfuss”, “Der Baader Meinhof Komplex” and “Die Päpstin”.
Berlin’s STURM gallery presented the works of countless artists for the first time in Germany, many of them from outside the country. Their biographies, the personal conditions under which they lived and the reception of these STURM WOMEN differed greatly, as did the stylistic approaches they took in their art. Displayed together, their works offer an impressive panorama of modern art.
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Else Lasker-Schueler appears to have distinguished less clearly between her own fantasy world and mundane reality than did many other artists of her...
Owner of the STURM gallery Herwarth Walden recognized her genius at an early date: Artist Marianne von Werefkin had a firm hold on the reins of the...
The long road to equality: Do we need exhibitions like that of the STORM women to clarify the importance of women in art? An investigation in the...
These days, the term “avant-garde” is applied to many things - SCHIRN MAGAZINE explains where it comes from and how it has changed down through the...
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Contrary to social norms, the STURM artist Gabriele Münter lived her life totally independently and became a co-founder of one of the most important...
