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Particularly in the time before outbreak of the World War I, ''Der Sturm'' played a crucial role in the French-German exchange of expressionist artists, which led to a special relationship between Berlin and Paris. Regularly, poems and other texts of French and/or French-speaking expressionists were published ([[Guillaume Apollinaire]], [[Blaise Cendrars]], etc.). This relationship was renewed after the war despite the hostilities between the two countries caused by the fighting.
 
Particularly in the time before outbreak of the World War I, ''Der Sturm'' played a crucial role in the French-German exchange of expressionist artists, which led to a special relationship between Berlin and Paris. Regularly, poems and other texts of French and/or French-speaking expressionists were published ([[Guillaume Apollinaire]], [[Blaise Cendrars]], etc.). This relationship was renewed after the war despite the hostilities between the two countries caused by the fighting.
  
===Issues===
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[http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/cgi-bin/bluemtn?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=bmtnabg&ai=1 The Blue Mountain project] hosts scans of a full run of the magazine (336 issues).
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* [http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/exist/apps/bluemountain/title.html?titleURN=bmtnabg The Blue Mountain project] hosts scans of full run of the magazine (336 issues)
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* [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/sturm Scans at UB Heidelberg]
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* [https://magazines.iaddb.org/periodicals/DSTURM Scans at IADDB]
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* [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_Sturm Index of all issues at Wikisource-DE]
  
==The Gallery==
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==Gallery==
 
The magazine also fostered the '''Galerie Der Sturm''', started by Walden to celebrate its 100th edition, in 1912. The gallery became the focus for Berlin's modern art scene for a decade. Starting with an exhibition of [[Fauvism|Fauves]] and [[Der Blaue Reiter]], followed by the introduction in Germany of the Italian Futurists, Cubists and Orphists, the gallery was to exhibit Edvard Munch, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Jean Metzinger, Gino Severini, Jean Arp, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Kurt Schwitters.
 
The magazine also fostered the '''Galerie Der Sturm''', started by Walden to celebrate its 100th edition, in 1912. The gallery became the focus for Berlin's modern art scene for a decade. Starting with an exhibition of [[Fauvism|Fauves]] and [[Der Blaue Reiter]], followed by the introduction in Germany of the Italian Futurists, Cubists and Orphists, the gallery was to exhibit Edvard Munch, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Jean Metzinger, Gino Severini, Jean Arp, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Kurt Schwitters.
  
 
After the war, Walden expanded Der Sturm into "Sturmabende", lectures and discussions on modern art, and "Die Sturmbühne", an expressionist theatre, as well as publishing books and portfolios by leading artists such as Oskar Kokoschka. Despite this, the gallery declined in importance after the war and closed in 1924, leaving the magazine to carry on as a quarterly until it too closed in 1932.
 
After the war, Walden expanded Der Sturm into "Sturmabende", lectures and discussions on modern art, and "Die Sturmbühne", an expressionist theatre, as well as publishing books and portfolios by leading artists such as Oskar Kokoschka. Despite this, the gallery declined in importance after the war and closed in 1924, leaving the magazine to carry on as a quarterly until it too closed in 1932.
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* [http://www.kubisme.info/kt336.html List of exhibitions]
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==Publishing house==
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===Magazine===
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* ''[[#Issues|Der Sturm]]'', ed. Herwarth Walden, 1910-32.
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===Newsletter===
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* ''[http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/exist/apps/bluemountain/title.html?titleURN=bmtnaal Sturm-Bühne: Jahrbuch des Theaters der Expressionisten]'', 8 numbers, Jan 1918-Oct 1919. [http://www.arthistoricum.net/themen/portale/sturm/sturmbuehne/ TOCs].
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===Books===
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<gallery>
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Kandinsky Wassily 1901-1913.jpg|Kandinsky, ''[[Media:Kandinsky_1901-1913_Der_Sturm_1913.pdf|1901-1913]]'', 1913.
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Baum Peter Schuetzengrabenverse 1916.jpg|Peter Baum, ''[http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/content/titleinfo/1069588 Schützengrabenverse]'', 1916.
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Kokoschka Oskar Moerder Hoffnung der Frauen 1916.jpg|Oskar Kokoschka, ''[http://archive.org/details/morderhoffnungde00koko Mörder Hoffnung der Frauen]'', [1916].
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Walden Herwarth Gesammelte Schriften 1 Kunstmaler und Kunstkritiker 1916.jpg|Herwarth Walden, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/walden1916bd1 Gesammelte Schriften 1], 1916.
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Walden Herwarth Einblick in Kunst Expressionismus Futurismus Kubismus 1924.jpg|Herwarth Walden, ''[[Media:Walden_Herwarth_Einblick_in_Kunst_Expressionismus_Futurismus_Kubismus_1924.pdf|Einblick in Kunst]]'', new ed., 1924.
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Loos Adolf Ins Leere gesprochen 1897-1900 1921.jpg|Adolf Loos, ''[http://archive.org/details/insleeregesproch00loosuoft Ins Leere gesprochen]'', 1921.
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Schwitters Kurt Die Blume Anna 1922.jpg|Kurt Schwitters, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schwitters1922 Die Blume Anna]'', [1922].
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Kassak Lajos MA Buch Gedichte 1923.jpg|Lajos Kassák, ''[[Media:Kassak_Lajos_MA-Buch_1923.pdf|MA-Buch. Gedichte]]'', 1923.
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</gallery>
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<div class="dpl" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size: .95em">
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Dafnis-Lieder – für Gesang und Klavier'', 1910.
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* Hermann Essig, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/essig1912 Der Frauenmut / Lustspiel in fünf Aufzügen]'', 1912.
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* Hermann Essig, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/essig1912b Ihr stilles Glück / Drama]'', 1912.
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* Robert Delaunay, ''Album, mit einem Gedicht von Apollinaire'', 1913.
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* Kandinsky, ''[[Media:Kandinsky_1901-1913_Der_Sturm_1913.pdf|1901-1913]]'', 1913, [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kandinsky1913 UHB].
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* Oskar Kokoschka, ''Mappe'', 1913.
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* Hermann Essig, ''Oberteufel / Tragödie'', 1914.
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* Hermann Essig, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/essig1913 Ein Taubenschlag / Lustspiel]'', 1914.
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* Hermann Essig, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/essig1912c Napoleons Aufstieg / Tragödie]'', 1914.
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* Paul Leppin, ''Daniel Jesus, Roman'', 1914.
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* Paul Scheerbart, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/scheerbart1914 Glasarchitektur / In 111 Kapiteln]'', 1914.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Heeresmarsch. Für August Stramm'', 1914. [http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/cgi-bin/bluemtn?a=d&d=bmtnabg19140815-01.2.10&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------]
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* Adolf Knoblauch, ''[http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/varia/id/7072375?lang=de Die schwarze Fahne. Eine Dichtung]'', 1915.
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* August Stramm, ''[http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/content/titleinfo/157751 Du. Liebesgedichte]'', 1915.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Die Judentochter. Dichtung aus des Knaben Wunderhorn'', 1915.
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* Peter Baum, ''[http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/content/titleinfo/1069588 Schützengrabenverse]'', 1916.
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* Oskar Kokoschka, ''[http://archive.org/details/morderhoffnungde00koko Mörder Hoffnung der Frauen. Drama mit Zeichnungen]'', [1916], [16]+[4] pp. A play, written 1907.
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* Adolf Knoblauch, ''Kreis des Anfangs / Frühe Gedichte'', 1916.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''[http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN756610680 Das Buch der Menschenliebe]'', 1916; [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/walden1921 2nd ed.], 1921.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Roman'', 1916.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Gesammelte Schriften, [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/walden1916bd1 Bd.1, Kunstmaler und Kunstkritiker], Bd. 2 Literaten an der Kunst'', 1916.
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* Franz Richard Behrens, ''Blutblüte I Gedichte'', 1917.
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* Hermann Essig, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/essig1917 Der Wetterfrosch / Erzählung]'', 1917.
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* Kurt Heynicke, ''[http://digibus.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/viewer/image/1441892180471/1/ Rings fallen Sterne]'', 1917.
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* Kurt Heynicke, ''Gedichte'', 1917.
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* Ernst Marcus, ''Das Problem der exzentrischen Empfindung und seine Lösung'', 1917.
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* August Stramm, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/stramm1917 Die Menschheit]'', 1917.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Gesammelte Tonwerke, Schwertertanz'', 1917.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Tanz der Töne'', 1917.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Entbietung'', 1917.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''[http://digibus.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/viewer/image/1442223239938/1/ Die Härte der Weltenliebe. Roman]'', 1917.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Weib. Komitragödie'', 1917.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''[http://archive.org/details/einblickin00wald Einblick in Kunst. Expressionismus, Futurismus, Kubismus]'', 1917; [[Media:Walden_Herwarth_Einblick_in_Kunst_Expressionismus_Futurismus_Kubismus_1924.pdf|new ed.]], 1924, [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/walden1924 UBH].
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* Wilhelm Runge, ''Das Denken träumt / Gedichte'', 1918.
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* Lothar Schreyer, ''Meer, Sehnte, Mann / Bühnenspiel'', 1918.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/walden1918 Glaube. Komitragödie, 1918]''.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''[http://digibus.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/viewer/image/1441007099067/1/ Die Beiden. Ein Spiel mit dem Tode]'', 1918.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''[http://digibus.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/viewer/image/1441010505057/1/ Erste Liebe. Ein Spiel mit dem Leben]'', 1918.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''[http://digibus.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/viewer/image/1441288215339/1/ Kind. Tragödie]'', 1918.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Trieb. Eine bürgerliche Komitragödie'', 1918.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Sünde. Ein Spiel an der Liebe. Drama'', 1918.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Die Härte der Menschenliebe. Roman'', 1918.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/walden1918b Letzte Liebe. Komitragödie]'', 1918.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/walden1918a Menschen. Tragödie]'', 1918.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Sturm-Abende. Ausgewählte Gedichte'', 1918.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''An Schwager Kronos, für Gesang und Klavier'', 1918.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Die neue Malerei. Einführung in den Expressionismus'', 1918; [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/walden1919 repr.], 1919, [http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_G4hDAAAAYAAJ IA].
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* Herwarth Walden, ''Unter den Sinnen. Roman'', 1918.
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* Lothar Schreyer, ''Nacht'', 1918.
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* August Stramm, ''Tropfblut'', 1918.
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* Ernst Marcus, ''Das Erkenntnisproblem. Wie man mit der Radiernadel philosophiert'', 1919.
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* August Stramm, ''Gesammelte Dichtungen, Bd. 1.'', 1919.
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* Max Verworn, ''[http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XMIrAAAAMAAJ Keltische Kunst. Mit Abbildungen]'', 1919.
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* Herwarth Walden (ed.), ''Expressionismus. Die Kunstwende'', 1919.
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* Rudolf Blümner, ''[http://archive.org/details/dergeist00blmn Der Geist des Kubismus und die Künste]'', 1921.
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* Adolf Loos, ''[http://archive.org/details/insleeregesproch00loosuoft Ins Leere gesprochen, 1897-1900]'', 1921.
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* Albert Gleizes, ''Vom Kubismus: die Mittel zu Seinem Verständnis'', trans. F.A. Angermayer and Hans Jacob, 1922, 56+[7] pp. Trans. of ''Du cubisme et des moyens de la comprendre'' (1920).
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* Kurt Schwitters, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schwitters1922 Die Blume Anna, die neue Anna Blume. Eine Gedichtsammlung aus den Jahren 1918-1922]'', [1922].
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* Kurt Schwitters, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=8579 Auguste Bolte]'', 1923.
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* Lothar Schreyer, ''Angelus Silesius/ Sprüche'', 1923.
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* Lajos Kassák, ''[[Media:Kassak_Lajos_MA-Buch_1923.pdf|MA-Buch. Gedichte]]'', trans. & intro. Andreas Gáspár, 1923; [http://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/ORSZ_PIMU_KasMuz_52/ facs.], Budapest: Kassák Múzeum, 1999.
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* Herwarth Walden, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/walden1925 Im Geschweig der Liebe. Gedichte]'', 1925.
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* Herta Riese, ''Geschlechtsleben und Gesundheit / Gesittung und Gesetz'', 1932.
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* Franz Zorn, ''Stempellieder. Gedichte eines Erwerbslosen'', 1932.
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; Sturm-Bücher
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* August Stramm, ''Sancta Susanna'', Sturm-Bücher 1, 1914; [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/stramm1917a 2nd ed.], 1917.
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* August Stramm, ''Rudimentär'', Sturm-Bücher 2, 1914.
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* Mynona, ''Für Hunde und andere Menschen'', Sturm-Bücher 3, 1914.
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* August Stramm, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/stramm1914 Die Haidebraut]'', Sturm-Bücher 4, 1914.
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* August Stramm, ''[http://archive.org/details/3428098 Erwachen]'', Sturm-Bücher 5, 1915.
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* Aage von Kohl, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kohl1915b Die Hängematte des Rigué]'', Sturm-Bücher 6, 1915.
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* Adolf Behne, ''Zur neuen Kunst'', Sturm-Bücher 7, 1915; [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/behne1917 2nd ed.], 1917.
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* August Stramm, ''[http://archive.org/details/krfte00stra Kräfte]'', Sturm-Bücher 8, 1915.
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* Aage von Kohl, ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kohl1915 Die rote Sonne]'', trans. Nell Walden, Sturm-Bücher 9, 1915.
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* Aaga von Kohl, ''Der tierische Augenblick'', Sturm-Bücher 10, 1915.
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* August Stramm, ''[http://archive.org/details/3425790 Geschehen]'', Sturm-Bücher 11, 1916.
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* August Stramm, ''[http://archive.org/details/3428097 Die Unfruchtbaren]'', Sturm-Bücher 12, 1916.
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* Peter Baum, ''Kyland, Roman'', Sturm-Bücher 13, 1916.
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* Lothar Schreyer, ''Jungfrau'', Sturm-Bücher 14, 1917.
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===Catalogues===
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* ''[[Media:Der_Sturm_Erste_Austellung_Der_Blaue_Reiter_Franz_Flaum_Oskar_Kokoschka_Expressionisten_1912.pdf|Erste Austellung. Der Blaue Reiter. Franz Flaum. Oskar Kokoschka. Expressionisten]]'', 1912. Exh. held 12 Mar-12 Apr 1912.
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* ''[[Media:Die_Futuristen_Der_Sturm_1912.pdf|Zweite Ausstellung: Die Futuristen. Umberto Boccioni, Carlo D. Carra, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini]]'', 1912, 28 pp, [http://archive.org/details/diefuturistenumb00wald IA]. Exh. held 12 Apr-31 May 1912. [https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/findings/catalogue-1912-futurism-exhibition-berlin]
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* ''[[Media:Der_Sturm_Dritte_Austellung_Grafik_1912.pdf|Dritte Ausstellung: Graphik]]'', 1912. Exh. held May-Jun 1912.
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* ''Deutsche Expressionisten'', 1912. Exh. #4, held 16 Jun-late Jul 1912.
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* ''Französische Expressionisten'', 1912.  Exh. #5, held Aug 1912.
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* ''[http://archive.org/details/ersterde00wald Erster deutscher Herbstsalon, Berlin 1913]'', 1913. Exh. held 20 Sep-1 Dec 1913.
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* ''[http://archive.org/details/marcchagall00berl Marc Chagall]'', 1914. Exh. #26, held Jun 1914.
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* ''[http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-udk/files/929/8+B+1149+I.pdf 1. Potsdamer Ausstellung Expressionisten Kubisten]'', 1916. Exh. held at Potsdamer Kunstverein, 20 Jun-5 Jul 1916.
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* ''[http://archive.org/details/sechsundvierzigs00stur Franz Marc: Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, Gemälde und Aquarelle, Holzschnitte, Nov. 1916]'', 1916. Exh. #46, held Nov 1916.
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[http://www.arthistoricum.net/themen/portale/sturm/ausstellungskataloge/ Full list]
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===Picture books (Sturm Bilderbücher)===
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* I. Marc Chagall. 1917.
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* II. Alexander Archipenko, Text Roland Schacht, 1917.
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* III. ''[http://archive.org/details/paulk00klee Paul Klee]'', [1918], [24] pp. 22 works from 1913-16.
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* IV. Kurt Schwitters, 15 Stempelzeichnungen und 15 Gedichte mit einer Einleitung, 1920.
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* V. Maler des Expressionismus. Erste  Folge, 1921.
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* VI. Maler des Expressionismus. Zweite Folge, 1921. Jacoba van Heemskerck. Mit 7 Orig.-Holzschnitten und 28 Abbildungen, 1924.
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
* Peter Howard Selz, in [http://books.google.com/books?id=wGqz5SKkQSkC&pg=PA250 "Der Sturm"], ''German Expressionist Painting'', University of California Press, 1974.
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* Nell Walden (ed.), ''[https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28011 Der Sturm: ein Erinnerungsbuch an Herwarth Walden und die Künstler aus dem Sturmkreis]'', Baden-Baden: Klein, 1954, 275 pp. {{de}}
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* Peter Howard Selz, [http://books.google.com/books?id=wGqz5SKkQSkC&pg=PA250 "Der Sturm"], in ''German Expressionist Painting'', University of California Press, 1974.
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* Douglas Brent McBride, "A Critical Mass for Modernism in Berlin: ''Der Sturm'' (1910-32); ''Die Aktion'' (1911-32); and ''Sturm-Bühne'' (1918-1919)", in ''The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Vol. 3: Europe 1880-1940'', Oxford University Press, 2013. [http://books.google.com/books?id=bvsfioiQ8k8C&pg=PA773]
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* ''Sturm-Frauen. Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde in Berlin 1910-1932 / Storm Women: Women Artists of the Avant-Garde in Berlin 1910–1932'', eds. Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein, Cologne: Wienand, and Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2015, 400 pp. [http://www.wienand-verlag.de/titel/Sturm-Frauen-Kuenstlerinnen-der-Avantgarde-in-Berlin-1910-1932-Schirn.asp] {{de}}/{{en}}
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* Jenny Anger, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/4af490f2-0e8c-449b-994d-d335827ec5dc Four Metaphors of Modernism: From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme]'', University of Minnesota Press, 2018, 320 pp.
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; Bibliography
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* [http://biblio.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/sturm/ Bibliographie Der Sturm], U Heidelberg.
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
* [http://www.kubisme.info/kt336.html List of exhibitions]
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* [http://www.arthistoricum.net/themen/portale/sturm/ Herwarth Walden und DER STURM], thematic section at ArtHistoricum.net. {{de}}
* [http://www.dada-companion.com/journals/per_sturm.php Der Sturm magazine in Dada Companion]
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* [http://schirn.de/sturmfrauen/digitorial/en/ Storm Women], exhibition, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2015.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20190419232052/http://www.dada-companion.com/journals/per_sturm.php Der Sturm magazine in Dada Companion]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Sturm Der Sturm at Wikipedia]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Sturm Der Sturm at Wikipedia]
 
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Sturm_(Zeitschrift) Der Sturm magazine at German Wikipedia]
 
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Sturm_(Zeitschrift) Der Sturm magazine at German Wikipedia]
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Der Sturm [The Storm] was a magazine covering the expressionism movement founded in Berlin in 1910 by Herwarth Walden. It ran weekly until monthly in 1914, and became a quarterly in 1924 until it ceased publication in 1932.


Among the literary contributors were Peter Altenberg, Max Brod, Richard Dehmel, Alfred Döblin, Anatole France, Knut Hamsun, Arno Holz, Karl Kraus, Selma Lagerlöf, Adolf Loos, Heinrich Mann, Paul Scheerbart, and René Schickele. Der Sturm consisted of pieces such as expressionistic dramas (i.e. from Hermann Essig and August Stramm), artistic portfolios (Oskar Kokoschka), essays from artists (the Kandinsky Album), and theoretical writings on art from Herwarth Walden. The most well-known publications resulting from the magazine were the Sturmbücher (storm-books), (e.g. Sturmbücher 1 and 2 were works of August Stramm – Sancta Susanna and Rudimentär). Postcards were also created featuring the expressionistic, cubist, and abstract art of Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Kokoschka, August Macke, Gabriele Münter, Georg Schrimpf, Maria Uhden, Rudolf Bauer and others. The term Sturm was branded by Walden to represent the way in which modern art was penetrating Germany at the time.

Particularly in the time before outbreak of the World War I, Der Sturm played a crucial role in the French-German exchange of expressionist artists, which led to a special relationship between Berlin and Paris. Regularly, poems and other texts of French and/or French-speaking expressionists were published (Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, etc.). This relationship was renewed after the war despite the hostilities between the two countries caused by the fighting.

Issues

Der Sturm 7:9 (Dec 1916). View online.
Der Sturm 13:4 (Apr 1922). View online.
Der Sturm 14:1 (Jan 1923). View online.

Gallery

The magazine also fostered the Galerie Der Sturm, started by Walden to celebrate its 100th edition, in 1912. The gallery became the focus for Berlin's modern art scene for a decade. Starting with an exhibition of Fauves and Der Blaue Reiter, followed by the introduction in Germany of the Italian Futurists, Cubists and Orphists, the gallery was to exhibit Edvard Munch, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Jean Metzinger, Gino Severini, Jean Arp, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Kurt Schwitters.

After the war, Walden expanded Der Sturm into "Sturmabende", lectures and discussions on modern art, and "Die Sturmbühne", an expressionist theatre, as well as publishing books and portfolios by leading artists such as Oskar Kokoschka. Despite this, the gallery declined in importance after the war and closed in 1924, leaving the magazine to carry on as a quarterly until it too closed in 1932.

Publishing house

Magazine

Newsletter

Books

Sturm-Bücher
  • August Stramm, Sancta Susanna, Sturm-Bücher 1, 1914; 2nd ed., 1917.
  • August Stramm, Rudimentär, Sturm-Bücher 2, 1914.
  • Mynona, Für Hunde und andere Menschen, Sturm-Bücher 3, 1914.
  • August Stramm, Die Haidebraut, Sturm-Bücher 4, 1914.
  • August Stramm, Erwachen, Sturm-Bücher 5, 1915.
  • Aage von Kohl, Die Hängematte des Rigué, Sturm-Bücher 6, 1915.
  • Adolf Behne, Zur neuen Kunst, Sturm-Bücher 7, 1915; 2nd ed., 1917.
  • August Stramm, Kräfte, Sturm-Bücher 8, 1915.
  • Aage von Kohl, Die rote Sonne, trans. Nell Walden, Sturm-Bücher 9, 1915.
  • Aaga von Kohl, Der tierische Augenblick, Sturm-Bücher 10, 1915.
  • August Stramm, Geschehen, Sturm-Bücher 11, 1916.
  • August Stramm, Die Unfruchtbaren, Sturm-Bücher 12, 1916.
  • Peter Baum, Kyland, Roman, Sturm-Bücher 13, 1916.
  • Lothar Schreyer, Jungfrau, Sturm-Bücher 14, 1917.

Catalogues

Full list

Picture books (Sturm Bilderbücher)

  • I. Marc Chagall. 1917.
  • II. Alexander Archipenko, Text Roland Schacht, 1917.
  • III. Paul Klee, [1918], [24] pp. 22 works from 1913-16.
  • IV. Kurt Schwitters, 15 Stempelzeichnungen und 15 Gedichte mit einer Einleitung, 1920.
  • V. Maler des Expressionismus. Erste Folge, 1921.
  • VI. Maler des Expressionismus. Zweite Folge, 1921. Jacoba van Heemskerck. Mit 7 Orig.-Holzschnitten und 28 Abbildungen, 1924.

Literature

  • Nell Walden (ed.), Der Sturm: ein Erinnerungsbuch an Herwarth Walden und die Künstler aus dem Sturmkreis, Baden-Baden: Klein, 1954, 275 pp. (German)
  • Peter Howard Selz, "Der Sturm", in German Expressionist Painting, University of California Press, 1974.
  • Douglas Brent McBride, "A Critical Mass for Modernism in Berlin: Der Sturm (1910-32); Die Aktion (1911-32); and Sturm-Bühne (1918-1919)", in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Vol. 3: Europe 1880-1940, Oxford University Press, 2013. [3]
  • Sturm-Frauen. Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde in Berlin 1910-1932 / Storm Women: Women Artists of the Avant-Garde in Berlin 1910–1932, eds. Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein, Cologne: Wienand, and Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2015, 400 pp. [4] (German)/(English)
  • Jenny Anger, Four Metaphors of Modernism: From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme, University of Minnesota Press, 2018, 320 pp.
Bibliography

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Avant-garde and modernist magazines

Poesia (1905-09, 1920), Der Sturm (1910-32), Blast (1914-15), The Egoist (1914-19), The Little Review (1914-29), 291 (1915-16), MA (1916-25), De Stijl (1917-20, 1921-32), Dada (1917-21), Noi (1917-25), 391 (1917-24), Zenit (1921-26), Broom (1921-24), Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet (1922), Die Form (1922, 1925-35), Contimporanul (1922-32), Secession (1922-24), Klaxon (1922-23), Merz (1923-32), LEF (1923-25), G (1923-26), Irradiador (1923), Sovremennaya architektura (1926-30), Novyi LEF (1927-29), ReD (1927-31), Close Up (1927-33), transition (1927-38).