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Plastic pose and study, late 1920s

A. Grinberg (?) :: Ornamental plastic pose, mid-1920s. Artist’s photographic print. Catalogue of the third “Art of Movement”
exhibition, 1927, No. 277. OE | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930
O. Engel’s, Plastic study, 1926. Pencil and ink on paper, 25 x 20 cm. Signed and dated: “Engel’s 1926”. OE | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

Pierrot, 1925

Otton Engel’s :: Pierrot, 1925. Crayons on paper. Signed and dated: “Engel’s 1925”. Catalogue of the first “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1925, Nos. 208-09. OE (Otton Engel’s repository, Moscow. Formerly in the collection of Irina Malakhova.) | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

Oriental dance, 1920s

Otton Engel’s Oriental dance, mid-1920s. Collage and coloured paper on paper. Catalogue of the third “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1927, Nº 543. OE | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

Egyptian prayer, 1920s

Nikolai Ivanovich Svishtov aka Nikolai Svishtov-Paola :: Egyptian prayer (A. Shapovalova), early 1920s. Original photographic print. Catalogue of the second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926, nº 299. RGALI. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement

Wigmans Raumgestalt · 1929

Charlotte Rudolph :: Raumgestalt. «Die neue Wigman-Schule im Berlin». Die Bühne 1929, Heft 226, Seite 38. | src ÖNB
Charlotte Rudolph :: Raumgestalt. «Die neue Wigman-Schule im Berlin». Die Bühne 1929, Heft 226, Seite 38. | src ÖNB
Charlotte Rudolph :: Mary Wigman in Raumgestalt. Scherl’s Magazin Band 6, H.1, Januar 1930
Charlotte Rudolph :: Mary Wigman in Raumgestalt. Scherl’s Magazin Band 6, H.1, Januar 1930

Mary Wigman in a dance scene, 1936

Tänzerin, Tanzpaedagogin und Choreografin Mary Wigman (Eigentlich Marie Wiegmann). Ganzkoerperaufnahme, in einer Tanzszene, 1936. | Dancer, dance teacher ad choreographer Mary Wigman (b. Marie Wiegmann). Full body shot, in a dance scene [scene maybe Pastorale from Shifting Landscape, 1929], 1936. | src and hi-res Getty Images

Hélène Vanel in l’Hystérie, 1938

Maroussia Vossen :: Hélène Vanel in l’Hystérie, at the press launch of the International Surrealist Exhibition in January 1938. From Rhythm & Colour, 2018. | src Inside the Private Diary of an Avant-Garde Dancer