Irma Stern
Irma Stern (1894-1966) was a painter South-African.
From German ascent and Jewish religion , Irma Stern was born with Schwiezer-Reneke in South Africa.
At the time of the release of the War of Boers, his/her parents turn over to Germany where they live until 1920. It is in Germany that Irma Stern studies art with the academy of Weimar then to the Levin-Funcke studio and finally with max Pechstein starting from 1917.
Stern is then associated with the movement of the German expresionnist S and holds its first exposure to Berlin in 1919.
In 1920, it returns on its native soil and holds its first exposure of Modern art with the Cape in 1922. After a short return in Germany, it settles definitively in the Cape in South Africa starting from 1926.
It however passes part of its life to travel in particular to Madeira, with the Senegal, Zanzibar, the Belgian Congo, the Swaziland, in Spain and France. Stern Paint of many landscapes and people whom it meets. It is one of the first contemporary South-African artists to insert in its paintings the black inhabitants of South Africa.
In 1962, a great retrospective is devoted to him to London.
She dies in the Cape the August 23rd 1966.
Its work is the subject of large restropectives in 1968 and in 1971, the museum Irma Stern is inaugurated in its house of the district of Rosebank. Its paintings are also permanently exposed to Africana Museum, at the Year Bryant Art Gallery, the Durban Art Gallery, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, King George VI Art Gallery, the Pretoria Art Museum, Tatham Art Gallery and William Humphreys Art Gallery.
External bonds
- Biography of Irma Stern
- Presentation of Irma Stern
- the museum Irma Stern
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