Category: 1920s

Women in balloon costume

Honor Blackman, English actress, wearing a bunch of balloons in a studio portrait, ca. 1950. Photo: Paul Popper | src Getty Images
Dancer Helen Barnes, wearing a costume and headpiece decorated with balloons. Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics. Photo: White (NY)

Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics : The Ziegfeld midnight frolics was an annual review playing at New York City’s New Amsterdam Roof that was produced from 1912 through 1929. “Helen Barnes, ‘Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic’, Danse de Follies, New Amsterdam Roof”– written on verso.

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Rosalia Chladek, 1925

Rosalia Chladek im Vorraum zum Festsaal der Schule Hellerau für Rhythmus, Musik und Körperbildung, Dresden, 1925. | Rosalia Chladek in the anteroom to the festival hall of the Hellerau School for Rhythm, Music and Physical Education, Dresden, 1925. | src and hi-res Theatermuseum, Wien

Tilly Losch as Almee by R. Koppitz

Rudolf Koppitz :: Tilly Losch as Almée, ca. 1925-1928. Toned carbon print & Multicolor bromoil print. | src Christie’s & getty images

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Maskentanz mit Elektra Maske

Rudolf Koppitz :: Dancer Hedy Pfundmayr with Elektra mask by Richard Teschner, 1930. Photoinstitut Bonartes via LL/51115
Rudolf Koppitz :: Dancer Hedy Pfundmayr with Elektra mask by Richard Teschner, 1930. Photoinstitut Bonartes via LL/51115
Rudolf Koppitz :: Hedy Pfundmayr in Maskentanz (Mask dance), ca. 1929

Nude study with child by Koppitz

Rudolf Koppitz (1884-1936) ~ Nude study with child, Weissensee, Carinthia, Austria, ca. 1928 | src Ostlicht Auktionen
Rudolf Koppitz (1884-1936) ~ Aktstudie mit Kinder, Weissensee, Kärnten, Österreich, um 1928 | src Ostlicht Auktionen