Edmund Kesting - Portrait of Herwarth Walden Medium: Woodcut, estate stamp Material: Paper Dimensions: 22 x 22 cm Edition Panderma, Basel 1928 (plate) Provenance: Edition Panderma, Carl Laszlo, Basel Galerie von Bartha, Basel Private Collection, Basel good condition / original condition Edmund Kesting (27 July 1892, Dresden – 21 October 1970, Birkenwerder) was a German photographer, painter and art professor. In 1923 he had his first exposition in the gallery Der Sturm in which he showed photograms. Among the artists with whom he interacted are Kurt Schwitters, László Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky and Alexander Archipenko. Herwarth Walden was a German Expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines. He is acknowledged as one of the most important discoverers and promoters of German avant-garde art in the early twentieth century (Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Magic Realism).