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Edmund KESTING: Dancer 1933/1991 #976647

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Edmund KESTING: Dancer 1933/1991 #976647
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Javanischer Tnzer der Wigman-Schule, 1933 <p> Gelatin silver print
11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (30.0 x 22.5 cm.)
Stamp on verso "Griffelkunst edition".
Printed in 1991 with the permission of
the estate from the original negative. <p> Edmund KESTING (1892-1970)
During the 1920s, Kesting was at the center of the avant-garde movement in Germany, where he befriended Kurt Schwitters and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. He first trained as a painter at the Akademie der Kunst in Dresden from 1911 to 1916. In the early 1920s, after service in World War I, he turned to collage and photography. An exhibitor at Herwarth Walden&#39;s Der Sturm gallery (Berlin), which supported German expressionism and the Blue Rider group, Kesting also operated several private art schools. The last, Der Weg (The Way), was closed by the Nazis in 1933. Kestings interest in the photographic portrait began in 1930, and often resulted in bold experimentation (Photomontages, superimpositions and solarizations) that provided some of the strongest examples of German expressionist portraiture in photography. In contrast to the objective naturalism of August Sander, his work is informed by the Sturm und Drang of the period the storm and stress of the political, economic, and social unrest in Germany. After the war in 1948, Kesting taught at the Kunsthochschule in Berlin-Weissensee. (partially excerpted from James Borcoman, Magicians of Light, National Gallery of Canada, 1993) <p> Bibliography: <p> Brix, ...
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<tr><td>Title:Edmund KESTING: Dancer 1933/1991</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York</td></tr>
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