Background
Edmund Resting was born in 1892 in Birkenwerder, near Berlin, Germany.
Edmund Resting was born in 1892 in Birkenwerder, near Berlin, Germany.
He studied at the Akademie der Kunste in Dresden (1911-16).
Kesting exhibited pictures and collages of the war at a one-man show in Dresden in 1918, and in 1919 he founded the Der Weg School for training in composition in Dresden, where he taught nature study. In 1920 he met Herwarth Walden, with whom he began a longstanding friendship and collaboration. In 1923 Kesting had a one-man exhibit, “Sturm," and was published in Der Sturm magazine. He exhibited in New York and Moscow in 1926, and in 1927 participated in the “Great Berlin Art Show." Walden, his fellow member of the "Sturmcircle," left for the USSR in 1932, which ended their relationship, and the next year Kesting joined with Leitung von Lothar Schreyer of Berlin's Wegschule to publish material on the "Degenerate Art" school of photography ("Entarteten Kunst" Zuwendung zur Fotografie). With Will Gorham, Kesting set up the first German Art Show in Dresden, including pieces from the "Entarteten Kunst." He later taught for several years, and in 1955 was a professor at the Deutschen Hochschule für Filmkunst.