
Lo Hesse in ‘Ahnfrau’, 1924

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German dancer Anita Berber, 1922. Archiv Setzer-Tschiedel. source: Getty Images
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Atelier Setzer* :: German dancers Joachim von Seewitz and Lo Hesse, Vienna, 1918 / from: Sport und Salon
Dancers Lo Hesse and Joachim von Seewitz were active in Munich and Berlin between 1916 and 1920. Their dances relied heavily on extravagantly exotic costumes designed mostly by the Munich expressionist artist Walter Schnackenberg. The couple favoured fantastically Oriental, Venetian, Spanish, or rococo costumes that had the effect of making dance a sign of refined luxury and exquisite voluptuousness.
*Franz Xaver Setzer
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Lo Hesse was active in Munich and Berlin between 1916 and 1920. Her dances relied heavily on extravagantly exotic costumes designed mostly by the German expressionist artist Walter Schnackenberg. | src Flickr

Franz Xaver Setzer :: Maria Jeritza as Turandot, 1926.
The last of Puccini’s operas, Turandot is set in long-ago China. It is
the story of Prince Calàf, who falls in love with the forbidding
Princess Turandot. / src: Music Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.
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