Category: portrait, Porträt, retrato, ritratto, portret, retrat, Bildnis

Josephine Baker portrait

Harcourt Studio, Paris :: African American dancer and singer Josephine Baker, a head and shoulders pose, wearing an attractive costume. Signed in bold dark ink ‘Josephine Baker’. Undated. | src Drouot

Dancer with pole, 1920s

Lotte Eckener (Atelier Alexander Binder) :: Tänzerin mit Stange, 1920s. | src Coll. Dorothea Cremer-Schacht via Fotografie am Bodensee

“Lotte Eckener was born in Friedrichshafen in 1906 to the famous airship pioneer Hugo Eckener. In 1924 she moved to Munich to study at the Bavarian State School of Photography. Her first professional stop was the renowned Atelier Alexander Binder on Kurfürstendamm, where the great and rich of the golden 20s came and went. She portrayed famous stars like Josef von Sternberg, Helene Thimig and Anny Ondra and took photographs for advertising orders.” quoted from source

Dancer Nina Payne, 1920s

Atelier Willinger :: Bewegungsstudie der Tänzerin Nina Payne, 1920s. | src Theatermuseum, Wien
Atelier Willinger :: Bewegungsstudie der Tänzerin Nina Payne, 1920s. | src Theatermuseum, Wien
Alexander Binder :: Dancer Nina Payne with a dance mask and costume in the Nelson revue "Confetti"; Nelson Theater Berlin, ca. 1925
Atelier Binder – Alexander Binder :: Dancer Nina Payne with a dance mask and costume in the Nelson revue “Confetti”; Nelson Theater Berlin, ca. 1925 | src Getty Images

Bewegungsstudie von Nina Payne

nina payne, willinter
Atelier Willinger :: Bewegungsstudie der Tänzerin Nina Payne, 1920s. | src Theatermuseum, Wien
Atelier Willinger :: Movement study of dancer Nina Payne, 1920s.| src Theatermuseum, Wien
Atelier Willinger :: Movement study of dancer Nina Payne, 1920s. | src Theatermuseum, Wien