Herwarth Walden

Raoul Hausmann, Portrait d’Herwarth Walden à Bonset, carte postale envoyée à Théo Van Doesburg [Portrait of Herwarth Walden in Bonset, postcard sent to Theo Van Doesburg], 1921.

Herwarth Walden (born Georg Lewin, 16 September 1879, Berlin – 31 October 1941, Saratov, Soviet Union) was a German Expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines. He is broadly acknowledged as one of the most important discoverers and promoters of German avant-garde art in the early twentieth century (Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Magic Realism).

Literature

• Nell Walden, Herwarth Walden: ein Lebensbild, Berlin & Mainz: Kupferberg, 1963, 132 pp. (German)

See also

• Der Sturm

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herwarth_Walden