Tag: dance pose, tanzpose

La Jana in Tanzpose in Truxa

La Jana in the film ‘Truxa‘. Regie: Hans H. Zerlett (1937). Published by ‘B.Z.’ 14.08.1936 | src getty images

The famous tightrope artist Truxa is drinking at the Artisan bar in New York. He meets a young man, Husen, and gives him his stage name Truxa. He is to take the real Truxa’s place at a circus show in the Wintergarten in Berlin (src IMdB)

La Jana. Tanzszene aus dem Film ‘Truxa‘ mit Tamburin. Regie: Hans H. Zerlett, nach dem Roman von Heinrich Seiler. Deutschland, 1936 (23.01.1936) | src getty images
La Jana. Truxa (1937) Illustrierter Film-Kurier Filmprogramm Nr. 1617 (WFK : Wiener Film-Kurier) | src eBay

The series “Illustrierte Film-Kurier” (Wien), collectors code: WFK, was published from 1930 (around the beginning of the sound film era) to 1938 (the annexation of Austria). After the series was discontinued in 1938, the Berlin IFK (Illustrierte Film-Kurier) [BFK : Berliner Illustrierte Film-Kurier] was also distributed in Austria until the end of the war. A total of 2065 numbered program booklets (Filmprogramm; Programmhefte) were published in the WFK series. Under the name “Film im Bild”; eight unnumbered previous editions were produced specifically for certain premiere theaters (e.g. Schweden-Kino or Apollo). | quoted from source

La Jana in Tanzpose, Frankreich, 1930-1938. New York Times Photo. | src ÖNB
Truxa (1937) Illustrierter Film-Kurier (IFK) Filmprogramm Nr. 2564 (BFK : Berliner Film-Kurier) | src eBay

Kitty Starling, The London Darling

Ludwig Hohlwein :: Kitty Starling, The London Darling. German Art Deco Print, 1926. | src L’Affichiste at Chairish

Kitty Starling poster, 1921

Ludwig Hohlwein :: Kitty Starling, original 1924 two-color lithograph of a poster. Poster was designed in 1921. | src Period Paper

Gypsy Rhoumaje, ca. 1925

“Musik in der Bewegung – Die Tänzerin Gipsy Rhouma-je”. Kunstdruck nach einer Radierung von / Art print after an etching by
Max Pollak. Großer Kunstdruck aus dem Jahr 1932. | src eBay
“Music in motion – The dancer Gipsy Rhouma-je”. Kunstdruck nach einer Radierung von / Art print after an etching by
Max Pollak. Großer Kunstdruck aus dem Jahr 1932. (Full page) | src eBay
Max Pollak :: Gipsy Rhouma-Jé (Gypsy Rhoumaje), ca. 1925. Color aquatint with etching. | src Annex Galleries

Kitty Starling, ca. 1925

Max Pollak :: La danseuse ~ Kitty Starling, ca. 1925. Color etching on paper. | src Mills College Art Museum

Tanečnice Kitty Starling, 1930s

Max Pollak :: Tanečnice Kitty Starling. léta 20. století, barevný lept, suchá jehla, papír. | Dancer Kitty Starling 1930s, color etching, drypoint, paper. | src Patrik Šimon

Dancer Thea von Ujj , ca. 1925

Max Pollak :: Thea von Ujj , ca. 1925. Color aquatint with etching. |src Annex Gallery
«While in Vienna Max Pollak became involved in the avant-garde dance scene. He did a series of intaglio portraits of dancers, usually costumed and posed, from one of their noted performances. He is sometimes credited with being ‘the first etcher to turn his attention to the dance as a subject‘.»