Herwarth Walden [SEP] place of death
Herwarth Walden
Herwarth Walden (actual name "Georg Lewin", 16 September 1879 in Berlin – 31 October 1941 in Saratov, Russia) 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).
Biography.
He studied composition and piano at the music academies of Berlin and Florence. But his interest embraced all arts. So
director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and from 1916 until 1928 he was the editor of Der Sturm magazine, owned by Herwarth Walden, with whom he became a close collaborator on a several projects. At the same time, he also taught at the "Sturm-Schule für Bühnenkunst und Pantomime" ('Sturm school of stagecraft and pantomime') until 1924.
In 1918 Scheyer and Walden founded the "Sturmbühne", an expressionist theatre. Schreyer’s first plays Kreuzigung (Crucifixion) and Kindssterben (Death of a