Category: role portrait, Rollenporträt, characterization

Tanzmaske “Sie” für Bibo

Minya Diez-Dürhkoop :: Tanzmaske “Sie” von Lavinia Schulz. Costume designs by Lavinia Schultz and Walter Holdt for ‘Bibo’, 1924. | src MK&G · Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg)
Minya Diez-Dürhkoop :: Tanzmaske “Sie” von Lavinia Schulz. Costume designs by Lavinia Schultz and Walter Holdt for ‘Bibo’, 1924. | src MK&G · Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg)

Sappho, 1926

William H. Mortensen (1897-1965) · Sappho (actress Dorothy Cumming), 1926. Manipulated photograph. Unique Print. | source Flickr via hauntedbystorytelling | more [+] by this photographer

Cat masks by Leonor Fini

Brassaï (1899-1984) ~ Ballet de Paris, 1949. Ferrotyped gelatin silver print | src Christie’s
Brassaï (1899-1984) ~ Ballet de Paris, 1949. Ferrotyped gelatin silver print | src Christie’s
Brassaï (Gyula Halász) (1899-1984) ~ Untitled [woman with cat mask by Leonor Fini], Paris, 1930s | src stephen ellcock
Brassaï (1899-1984) ~ Ballet de Paris, 1949. Brassaï (1899-1984) ~ Ballet de Paris, 1949. Ferrotyped gelatin silver prints | src Christie’s

Les Demoiselles de la Nuit

Ballet in one act with choreography by Roland Petit, libretto by Jean Anouilh, music by Jean Françaix, and scenery & costume design (including the ballet’s fantastic cat masks) by Leonor Fini. It premiered on 22 May 1948 by Ballets de Paris at the Théâtre Marigny (Paris), with Fonteyn, Petit, and Hamilton. It tells the story of a musician who falls in love with his beautiful cat Agathe, who has assumed semi-human form. Agathe tries to be faithful to her human lover but is lured away by the sound of tomcats and the call of freedom. She leaps off the rooftops and the musician falls to his death as he tries to grab hold of her. She falls after him and they are united in death. | src The Oxford Dictionary of Dance

Brassaï (1899-1984) ~ Dancer wearing a cat costume designed by Leonor Fini for Les Demoiselles de la Nuit, 1948 | src ODLP ~ l’œil de la photographie

Anita Berber as Bingha

Alexander Binder :: Anita Berber as Bingha, costume designed by Walter Schnackenberg, 1922. Schnackenberg was known as the “Toulouse-Lautrec of Germany”. | src 50 watts 

Lo Hesse in Tschaikiun, 1921

Franz Xaver Setzer :: German dancer Lo Hesse in a Chinese pantomime [Tschaikiun] and wearing a mask, Vienna, 1921. Costume design by Walter Schnackenberg. | src Imagno · Getty Images
Walter Schnackenberg :: Ballet und Pantomime ‘Tschaikiun’ II (Lo Hesse), 1920. | src Colletti Gallery
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Atelier Setzer, Wien (1909 – 1939 Atelier) :: Lo Hesse. Rollenpörtrat. Fotopapier auf Karton. | src Theatermuseum Wien
Walter Schnackenberg :: Ballet und Pantomime ‘Tschaikiun’ I, print # 3 (Lo Hesse), 1920. | src 1st dibs

Rolf Arco by Jacobi & Riwkin

Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) ~ Der Tänzer Rolf Arco mit Maske, Berlin, 1931 © Lotte Jacobi Archives. | src die Zeit & art in berlin
Anna Riwkin (1908-1970) ~ Dansaren Rolf Arco, 1933. Gelatinsilverfotografi | src Moderna Museet
Anna Riwkin (1908-1970) ~ Dansaren Rolf Arco, 1933. Gelatinsilverfotografi | src Moderna Museet

Ruth Bayton by Willinger

Laszlo Willinger ~ French revue dancer Ruth Bayton with banana skirt in the Revue ‘Der Zug nach dem Westen’ (The Train to the West) at the Apollo Theater, 1927 (published: Quer (sic) 5/1927) | src Getty Images

Ruth Bayton by Atelier Balasz

Atelier Balasz ~ Ruth Bayton of the Folies Wagram. Full lenght portrait in a banana skirt, role-picture in the Revue ‘Der Zug nach dem Westen’ (The Train to the West), 1926. Published in ‘Berliner Morgenpost’ 10.11.1926. | src Getty Images

Margaret Chapple by M. Michaelis

Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ Margaret Chapple, Sydney, 1950 | src NGA

Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ Bodenwieser Ballet performance of the handicraft scene in Pilgrimage of Truth, featuring Margaret Chapple, ca. 1950 | src NLA

According to source, the image above may have been a promotional photograph taken for the Bodenwieser Ballet’s tour of South Africa in 1950

Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ No title [Margaret Chapple in ‘The Imaginary Invalid’], Sydney, 1950 | src NGA
Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902-1985) ~ Dancer [Margaret Chapple], Sydney, 1950 | src NGA