Hedda sterne biography of albert

War, migration, displacement, and uprooting play an important role in the process of forgetting and erasure even when these are not politically motivated.

Interrupted biographies and careers often lead to a fall in obscurity. This is abundantly clear in the case of Hedda Sterne, one of the most promising and talented artists in interwar Romania whose legacy was all but effaced from the art historical canon of her native country.

Hedda sterne biography of albert einstein

Born in Bucharest in 1910 as Hedwig Lindenberg, Hedda started taking art classes at an early age with the encouragement of Max Herman Maxy, a former language student of her father´s. Her first teacher, Fritz Storck, one of the most important sculptors and artists of the period, husband of the equally famous painter Cecilia Cutescu Storck, had also been the teacher of Maxy and other artists who would in turn become famous modernists.

In this circle, Hedda also got to know the Brauner brothers (Victor, Harry, and Theodore) and Marcel Janco