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Hermann Stenner

Letters, sketches, drawings. View of the archive


Short clip from the film that traces the creation of the Stenner Archive and accompanies this exhibition in our lecture hall. Film by Roman Schauerte Clip from Roman Schauerte

How do you build an artist archive? Kunsthalle Bielefeld has been dealing with this exciting question since March 2022. Thanks to three donations, the Kunsthalle has recently housed a large number of letters, documents, drawings and sketchbooks by the Bielefeld painter Hermann Stenner (1891-1914), which are being newly recorded, digitized and further researched in the archive. The exhibition provides an insight into the Hermann Stenner Archive’s holdings of around 500 objects, which include previously unpublished letters and studies thought to have been lost.

 

A postcard, with fountain pen in old handwriting, from 1914
Postcard to Hugo Stenner family (front), Stuttgart, 14.08.1914. Provenance: Friends of Hermann Stenner e.V.
A postcard, with fountain pen in old handwriting, from 1914
Postcard to Hugo Stenner family (reverse), Stuttgart, 14.08.1914. Provenance: Friends of Hermann Stenner e.V.
A postcard, with fountain pen in old handwriting, from 1912
Postcard to family Hugo Stenner in Bielefeld with bordered pencil drawing (front), Montjoie, 27. 06. 1912. Provenance: Bunte Collection
A postcard in old handwriting from 1912. Above a drawing of a hill with a large cross in the distance.
Postcard to family Hugo Stenner in Bielefeld with bordered pencil drawing (back), Montjoie, 27. 06. 1912. Provenance: Bunte Collection
A soldier of the German Empire. He looks into the camera.
Hermann Stenner as a soldier. Portrait postcard from 2 Sep,1914. Provenance: Collection Bunte
Two well-worn half-heeled leather boots on a windowsill. A leather bag hangs on the wall.
Hermann Stenner, Still life with a bag and a pair of boots, signed Herm- Stenner. Poster colors on drawing cardboard, 28.5 x 34.3 cm. Provenance: Götz Keitel, estate of Erich Stenner, artist's estate

KB Journal

Artist interview with Lars Rosenbohm

A slim man, about 50 years old, wearing a brown T-shirt and blue jeans, leaning against the frame of a room door. He is wearing horn-rimmed glasses with thin brown frames. In the background are stretcher frames and paintings wrapped in bubble wrap.

The Bielefeld artist Lars Rosenbohm explores the human condition in his haunting, sometimes disturbing depictions and reflects experiences of our time. Questions for the artist about his work from curator Felicitas von Richthofen.

A slim man, about 50 years old, wearing a brown T-shirt and blue jeans, leaning against the frame of a room door. He is wearing horn-rimmed glasses with thin brown frames. In the background are stretcher frames and paintings wrapped in bubble wrap.

Thomas Handke: What does the Kunsthalle Bielefeld sound like?
Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

Yana Wernicke: From quarry to art gallery – the red Main sandstone
Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

Rising red sandstone in the quarry with traces of cut stones.
Rising red sandstone in the quarry with traces of cut stones.

Vincent Hölscher: Engine room
Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

Galvanised pipework, partly at right angles.
Galvanised pipework, partly at right angles.

More from the archive

eulentraum key visual

Dreams of an Owl, Who the Bær and the Wounded Planet

Stories from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and an intervention by Simon Fujiwara
A bundle of shapes. Shades of green and blue predominate in the background. On the left is the structure of a brick wall, on the right a shape reminiscent of a car. Streaks and drops seem to float in the foreground. They are predominantly blue and magenta.

Between pixel and pigment

Hybrid painting in post-digital times
Pauline Julier, Supernova © Pauline Julier

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Residence NRW⁺
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Who we are

Face to Face and Side by Side #12
The upright picture is completely filled with a blue and white grid of squares divided into triangles. The white lines are arranged in such a way that the central area of the picture appears to have been moved backwards, creating step-like shapes.

More than painting

View into the collection #8
A woman in a black dress on the right next to a thick tree in a garden. Red yarn is wrapped around the tree trunk, apparently unwound from a red dress. Only a small remnant of the red dress remains above the chest.

Haegue Yang | Martin Creed | Kanako Hayashi

Time and space. face to face and side by side #11
A woman has her head tilted to the left. She looks old and emaciated. She holds her chin with a bony hand. Her eyes are closed, her hair looks a bit untidy, it is probably pinned up at the back.

Taking a stand. Käthe Kollwitz, Mona Hatoum
Schwarz-weißes Bild eines mittelalten Mannes mit kurzgeschorenen dunkelgrauen Haaren, breiter Nase und dunklen Augenbrauen. Er blickt schräg nach unten und scheint in Gedanken versunken zu sein. Das Bild ist im unteren Bereich nicht zu Ende koloriert, es sieht unfertig aus.

Viewpoints

View into the collection #7
An empty room with a pink wall and dark tiled floor. A large white circle is drawn on it with chalk.

Paula Modersohn-Becker / Ian Wilson

Brush, line and assertion - face to face and side by side #10
A car is travelling along a country lane. There are some fir trees on the wagon and the driver of the wagon can be seen in the side profile. The car is kicking up dust. There are wind turbines in the background.

Silke Schönfeld

Invented Traditions - Imagined Communities
Abstract forms such as stripes, implied rectangles, egg shapes and surfaces in different colors. Partly the colors overlap, some shapes are painted quickly and look very moved.

Action, Gesture, Paint

Women artists and abstraction worldwide 1940-70
Two pictures hang on a wall with reflective silver foil. On the left is a photo of an old doll with a black head and thick lips. The doll is broken: the right leg lies severed in front of her. Behind her is a dark blue background. On the right, a painting with a pile of toys against a white background: dolls, stuffed animals, cars, on top of which lies a doll with long limbs and a white dress.

Christa Dichgans | Paul McCarthy

Innocent Games? Face to Face and Side by Side #9
A drawing showing two cats, the tail of another cat and some star shapes. Cats and stars look as if they were floating around each other in the air. The colors are contrasting with blue, yellow, red, orange and purple to pink.

Keren Cytter. Hot Lava Night
A structure of a house built of wood. Walkable, quite low for a house, with a gable roof. On some of the wooden posts are colored circular shapes on a white background. In all four corners of the structure are corner benches. In the center of the house a cylindrical stove.

Oscar Tuazon

What we need
Several red houses with trees behind them and a green meadow in front.

Brauchen und Haben

Blick in die Sammlung #6
A brown lump of cloth wrapped with twine is mounted in an old picture frame. The background is golden, the wide border blue and gold, with a fine pattern. A plexiglass hood serves to protect the work. On both sides, white fabric panels hang from the ceiling.

Katrin Mayer / Christo

Shroud or unfold. facing each other #8