"Irma Stern. an Artist of Modernism Between Berlin and Cape Town" in the Brücke Museum

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In the 1920s Berlin, Irma Stern was a well-known artist. But the National Socialists defamed her expressionist art as "degenerate". The Jewish artist went to South Africa, where she became an art star and died in 1966. In Germany, she was forgotten, in South Africa, she was one of the most famous artists, her paintings achieved record prices at auctions and there is an Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town, but the artist is also not undisputed. More a…