#weimar art

[jareckiworld]

Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977)—The Children's Carnival Bustle [oil on canvas, 1926]

[victusinveritas]

Wassily Kandinsky's drawings of dancer Gret Palucca, Berlin 1926

Photographed by Hugo Erfurth

[weimarhaus]

LYONEL FEININGER : "Houses at Night , Dessau" , 1929 . Gelatin silver print ; 17,8 x 23,5 cm / Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin.

[canvasmirror]

Lotte Laserstein (German/Swedish, 1898 - 1993) • Self-Portrait with a Cat • 1928

[vintagecontinuum]

"Berlin was in a state of civil war," Christopher Isherwood writes in his Berlin Stories. "Hate exploded suddenly, without warning, out of nowhere." The failing Weimar government teetered on the verge of collapse, and along with it, the hopes of millions of Germans. Yet within the tumultuous early 1930s, high fashion nevertheless prevailed in Berlin.

Yva, a pioneering German-Jewish photographer, was a leading figure in the vibrant queer community of pre-Nazi Berlin. Her innovative work embodies the subtle elegance and boundary-pushing expressions of early 1930s aesthetics before the Nazi rise to power. Her evocative multiple exposure techniques and deliberately ungendered emphasis on the female figure offer a nuanced counterpoint to the artistic norms of the day, capturing glimpses of gender non-conformity and artistic sexual liberation that would soon be brutally suppressed.

Unfortunately, Yva was tragically unable to escape Germany before she and her husband were deported and murdered at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1942. Most of her negatives were destroyed, but in the years following the war, her surviving works were displayed at her last home in the Hotel Bogota at Schlüterstraße 45. Currently, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin website maintains a digitalized collection of her work.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jeanne Mammen

Romanisches Café

1930

[bloodybosom]

[artdecoandmodernist]

1920s Dodo (Dörte Clara Wolff), The Proposal. Watercolour on paper. 

Dodo aka Dodo Burgner, Dörte Clara Wolff, Dörte Burgner, Dörte Clara Burgner, Dörte Wolff and Dorte Clara Wolff.    

[jareckiworld]

Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977) — Death of the Poet Walter Rheiner [oil on canvas, 1925]

[weimarhaus]

Georg Scholz (October 10, 1890 – November 27, 1945), Reclining Nude, 1930. Oil on canvas, 53,5 : 67 cm. Via Ketterer Kunst.

[weimarhaus]

Marlene Dietrich

Freiherr (Baron) Wolff von Gudenberg (1890-1961 or 1964) was a photographer who was noted and fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s in Berlin. Wolff von Gudenberg is the name of an old Hessian noble family that was raised to the rank of baron in 1873. He photographed actors like Marlene Dietrich and Fritzi Massary, dancers like Marianne Winkelstern and La Jana, and international celebrities such as Josephine Baker and Anna May Wong. His photos appeared in magazines such as Die Dame, newspapers like Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (BIZ), and on countless postcards by Ross Verlag and other publishers.

[weimarhaus]

'Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen' (Germany, a Winter's Fairy Tale) George Grosz, 1918

[victusinveritas]

'Die Internationale'

Otto Griebel, 1929

[weimarhaus]

Otto Dix (1891–1969), The Pregnant Woman, 1931, egg-tempera, mastic varnish, stand oil, and oil paint on linen, mounted on plywood, 82.9 × 61.9 cm. Via Worcester Art Museum.

[weimarhaus]

Albert Birkle, "Die Kupplerin" ("The Matchmaker"), 1932.