Standing figure Louise Stomps

Louise Stomps is one of the pioneers of sculpture in Berlin Modernism. Born in Berlin in 1900, she had been drawing and modelling since 1918, but it was only after separating from her husband that the mother of two daughters devoted herself entirely to art from 1928 onwards. She attended the sculpture class at the Association of Berlin Women Artists, took lessons from Milly Steger and enjoyed her first successes in the early 1930s. After 1933 she withdrew from the art scene; in 1943 her studio and a large part of her works were destroyed. Immediately after the end of the war, Stomps was among the artists who revitalised Berlin’s art scene. In October 1945, she exhibited at the legendary Galerie Gerd Rosen alongside Renée Sintenis, Hans Uhlmann, Gustav Seitz and Karl Hartung; in 1951, she was awarded the City of Berlin Art Prize. She found an important patron in the collector and gallery owner Hanna Bekker vom Rath, to whom her brother, the publisher Victor Otto Stomps, had introduced her, and who repeatedly exhibited her works at the Kunstkabinett in Frankfurt over the following decades. In 1968, Stomps created a bronze bust of her patron. Like many of her contemporaries, she found a new artistic language in figurative abstraction after the war, without each time abandoning the human element. The ‘Standing Figure’, created around 1955, impressively illustrates this approach. The slender figure, standing upright and at peace with itself, is carved from a single piece of wood; the small head tilts slightly forwards, whilst a folded arm opens the body to form a recess. Stomps follows the natural growth and grain of the panel, allowing the material itself to become the vehicle of expression. Panels remained her preferred medium, particularly after 1960, when she left Berlin and settled in an old sawmill near Wasserburg am Inn. Today, her work is being rediscovered – as part of a long-overdue reassessment of those modernist female artists whose contributions were long overshadowed by their male counterparts. Like Renée Sintenis, Emy Roeder and Milly Steger, Louise Stomps belongs to the first generation of freelance female sculptors in Germany who first had to fight for their place in a male-dominated profession. Following the first retrospective organised by the Verborgene Museum in 2021/22 at the Berlinische Galerie, the exhibition ‘Konturen des Inneren’ will take place in 2026 at the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, before moving to the Edwin Scharff Museum in Neu-Ulm from November. | 1900 Berlin – Wasserburg/Inn 1988 | Moderne Kunst | Skulptur/Objekt/Multiple | Nummer: 26x2301 | Provenance: Nachlass der Künstlerin, Berlin.

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