Thea Sternheim's Photographic Portraits
DAS VERBORGENE MUSEUM
Thea Sternheim: Alfred Flechtheim, Kunsthändler und Sammler
© 1911 Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
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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: 'Mr Wacker is teaching me. I am learning to enlarge. I am printing, ordering a photographic sink unit,' she notes in her diary on 27.4.1912.
Many photographic portraits of artists and authors from her circle of friends are still extant: Franz Blei, Annette Kolb, André 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.
Artist(s)
Thea Sternheim
Curator(s)
Marion Beckers
Duration of the exhibition
30.10.2008 - 8.02.2009
Vernissage
29.10.2008, 19 h
Opening times
Do-Fr 15-19 h, Sa-So 12-16 h
Location
DAS VERBORGENE MUSEUM
Schlüterstraße 70
10625 Berlin
T 0049 30 3133656
Public transport connections
S5, S7, S9, S75 Savignyplatz; U2 Ernst-Reuter-Platz