Thea Sternheim
dal 29/10/2008 al 7/2/2009
Segnalato da
29/10/2008
Thea Sternheim
Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin
Photographic portraits of artists and authors from 1903 to 1971
In the days of the Weimar Republic, the author and amateur photographer Thea Sternheim (1883-1971) lived by turn in Switzerland, Munich and Berlin. She was on friendly terms with many prominent literary and theatrical figures, gallery owners and artists. In 1911 she taught herself photography, set up a dark room for herself and took lessons from a Mr Wacker. Many photographic portraits of artists and authors from her circle of friends are still extant: Franz Blei, Annette Kolb, Andre' Gide, Charlotte Wolff, Max Ernst, Julien Green, Alfred Flechtheim and others. She stuck these into the diary which she started in 1903 and, from 1909, kept up until her death in 1971. For the first time, this exhibition shows a selection of these highly personal portraits, which have a remarkable air of naturalness and spontaneity. Curated by Marion Beckers. In the contest of the Third European Month of Photography in Berlin.