Else Lasker-Schuler
dal 19/1/2011 al 30/4/2011
Segnalato da
19/1/2011
Else Lasker-Schuler
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945) was not only a brilliant poet, but she also created an extensive body of drawings. The exhibition is the largest exhibition to date that pays tribute to her as a fine artist. Organized in conjunction with the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt am Main, the show contains known works that first appeared in the magazine 'Der Sturm', as well as several sheets now on display for the first time ever.
Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) was not only a brilliant poet, but she also created an extensive body of drawings. The exhibition 'Else Lasker-Schüler - Die Bilder/The Pictures' is the largest exhibition to date that pays tribute to her as a fine artist. Organized in conjunction with the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt am Main, the show contains known works that first appeared in the magazine 'Der Sturm', as well as several sheets now on display for the first time ever.
Else Lasker-Schüler was closely associated with the city of Berlin. Born the daughter of a banker in Wuppertal-Elbersfeld, Lasker-Schüler went on to become the leading figure in Expressionist literature, publishing her first poems in Berlin in 1899. In 1903 she married the writer Georg Lewin in Berlin, and it was her he had to thank for coming up with his pseudonym, Herwarth Walden.
Walden became a central figure in the avant-garde thanks to both his magazine, 'Der Sturm' ('The Storm'), which first appeared in 1910, and his gallery of the same name. Else Lasker-Schüler also helped shape the Berlin bohemian scene of the 1920s. Among her most important friends and admirers were Franz Marc, Karl Kraus and Gottfried Benn. In April 1933 Else Lasker-Schüler emigrated after having been awarded the prestigious Kleist Prize just one year earlier, settling first in Zurich, before moving on to Palestine in 1939, where she died in 1945. She was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
The catalogue to the exhibition contains all drawings the artist ever made in what amounts to an illustrated catalogue raisonné. This index of Else Lasker-Schüler's pictorial works now means her oeuvre is accessible to the public for the first time in its entirety.
Image: Else Lasker-Schüler, Die Häuptlinge gehen für ihren Kaiser auf Raub aus, 1916 Tinte und farbige Kreiden, auf Karton aufgeklebt © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
Press contact
Dr. Katharina von Chlebowski / Theresa Lucius T +49 30 26394880 F +49 30 263948811 presse@elselaskerschueler.org
Anne Schäfer-Junker T +49 30 266423402 F +49 30 266423409 presse@smb.spk-berlin.de
Press prewiev 20 Jenuary 2011, h 11 a.m.
Opening 20 Jenuary 2011, h 8 p.m.
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart
Invalidenstraße 50 - 51, 10557 Berlin
Opening Hours
Tue 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wed 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Thu 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Fri 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sat 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sun 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Mon closed
Admission fees
House ticket including temporary exhibitions: 12 Euro, concession 6 Euro