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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provides an insight into the Hermann Stenner Archive’s holdings of around 500 objects, which include previously unpublished letters and studies thought to have been lost.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

Between color volume, drippings and braiding
German women artists of the Informel after 1945

Black and white photograph of a woman pouring paint from a pot onto the floor.

In the literature on Art Informel, abstract art in Germany after 1945, the role of women in this art movement is rarely mentioned. This is where we begin to fill this void. We present four German women artists of the post-war period and explain the special German cultural scene of the time in which they were active.

Black and white photograph of a woman pouring paint from a pot onto the floor.

More from the archive

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
Eine türkisgrüne Farbfläche. Darauf ein ausgerissenes Stück Pappe in der Form eines Trichters. Diese Form ist grau und am rechtren Rand helltürkis.

Yto Barrada

Bad Color Combos
Eine Landschaft. Bäume, Palmen, ein

Connections

Look into the collection #5
Eine Skulptur einer abstrahierten menschlichen Figur. Die Beine sind schmal, der Oberkörper etwas breiter. Ihre Augen sind nur durch große Augenhöhlen angedeutet. Sieht ein bisschen aus wie schnell geknetet.

Alberto Giacometti / Martin Disler

Small and big demons. with each other opposite #7
Von unten sind Eisbrocken an der Wasseroberfläche zu sehen. Licht scheint hindurch. Darunter im Wasser ein Taucher in der Ferne. Die Farben nur weiß und graublau.

Aurel Dahlgrün

Summit
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Thomas Ruff, James Welling

Dark Matter
In an exhibition room of the Kunsthalle. In front of the wall-high window is a yellow-green, roundish object, about 1.60 meters high. In front of the window a curtain with an architectural photograph printed on it. Behind it, paintings on two walls.

In(visible)

View into the collection #4