1. Herwarth Walden was a German expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines.
11 Facts About Herwarth Walden
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Herwarth Walden is broadly acknowledged as one of the most important discoverers and promoters of German avant-garde art in the early twentieth century.
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Herwarth Walden was best known as the founder of the Expressionist magazine Der Sturm and its offshoots.
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Herwarth Walden studied composition and piano at the music academies of Berlin and Florence.
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Herwarth Walden was best known as the founder of the expressionist magazine Der Sturm and its offshoots.
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Herwarth Walden discovered, sponsored and promoted many young, still unknown artists of different styles and trends, such as the Blaue Reiter and Italian Futurism.
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From 1901 to 1911, Walden was married to Else Lasker-Schuler, the leading female representative of German expressionist poetry.
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Herwarth Walden invented for him the pseudonym "Herwarth Walden", inspired by Henry Thoreau's book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
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Herwarth Walden went to Moscow, where he worked as a teacher and publisher.
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Herwarth Walden was imprisoned and died in October 1941 in a Soviet prison in Saratov.
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Herwarth Walden's death was established by the International Tracing Service.