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Nell Walden then met Klee and Kandinsky, who encouraged her to paint. After The First World War broke out, Nell worked as a journalist and collected works of the “Sturm”-artists, Swedish art as well as African and Oceanic art. In 1916 she attended painting classes in the newly founded “Sturm”-art school and the following year exhibited for the first time. In 1923 she ended her work for Der Sturm and divorced Herwarth Walden.
From 1932 Nell worked as a painter, poet, translator and art collector. Her second husband, the doctor Hans Hermann Heimann, who she married in 1926, was murdered by the Nazis.
In 1940, Nell married the Swiss teacher Hannes Urech. From 1944 the couple lived in Schinznach-Bad AG. In 1957 to celebrate her 70th birthday, Nell's paintings were shown in a special exhibition in Aarau and a volume of her pictures and poems was published, edited by Hannes Urech and Lothar Schreyer.
Hannes and Nell moved to a new house “Seehalde” in Seengen in 1962, where her husband died the following year. In her last years, Nell travelled to Israel and Ibiza. She is buried next to her third husband in Aarau.
In 1940, Nell married the Swiss teacher Hannes Urech. From 1944 the couple lived in Schinznach-Bad AG. In 1957 to celebrate her 70th birthday, Nell's paintings were shown in a special exhibition in Aarau and a volume of her pictures and poems was published, edited by Hannes Urech and Lothar Schreyer.
Hannes and Nell moved to a new house “Seehalde” in Seengen in 1962, where her husband died the following year. In her last years, Nell travelled to Israel and Ibiza. She is buried next to her third husband in Aarau.
Picture from Google Images - John Jon-And: Herwarth and Nell Walden
Information for this panel has been collected, translated and contributed by Penelope Monkhouse from Germany - my thanks to Penelope.
Penelope Monkhouse (*1952) is a German-British scientist living in Schwetzingen/Germany and is a granddaughter of the novelist, dramatist and literary critic Allan Monkhouse. Literature of the early 20th Century is currently one of her chief non-scientific interests and she is engaged on a comparative study of German and English poetry of this period. Penelope also writes poetry of her own and translates poetry to and from German and English.
