Herwarth Walden (16 September 1879–31 October1941) was a German expressionist writer, editor and critic.

Born in Berlin, Walden was a musican, composer, and writer but he was best known as the founder of the expressionist magazine Der Sturm (The Storm) and its offshoots. These consisted of a publishing house and journal, founded in 1919, to which Walden added an art gallery two years later. When the economic depressions of the 1930s, and the subsequent rise of National Socialism, compromised his activities, Walden emigrated to the Soviet Union, where he died as a political prisoner in Saratov, in 1941.

1879 births | 1941 deaths | German writers

Herwarth Walden