Herwarth Walden issued the first number of Der Sturm in Berlin, launching a weekly journal that quickly became one of the central organs of the European avant-garde. The magazine began as a forum for literature and criticism, but it soon became inseparable from modern art: it published and promoted Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, and abstraction, and helped create the wider Sturm network of galleries, lectures, portfolios, postcards, and exhibitions. Its pages and related gallery activities connected German artists with Paris, Vienna, Moscow, and other modernist centers, while also giving unusual visibility to women artists such as Gabriele Munter, Sonia Delaunay, Marianne von Werefkin, Natalia Goncharova, and Jacoba van Heemskerck.
Der Sturm helped make Berlin a major prewar clearinghouse for international modernism.
