Tag: expressionism

Tanzer Harald Kreutzberg

Will Burgdorf :: Dancer Harald Kreutzberg, around 1930s. | src apfelauge
Maurice Goldberg :: Drei aus Harald Kreutzbergs Sträflingstanz. | Three movement studies from Harald Kreutzberg’s ‘Convict dance’. Published in UHU magazine, January 1929 issue

Lo Hesse, ca. 1918

Franz Xaver Setzer :: Dancer Lo Hesse, about 1918. (Archiv Setzer-Tschiedel) | src Getty Images
Grainer (München) :: German dancer Lo Hesse | German postcard by Verlag Hans Dursthoff, Berlin, nº 1170. Photo Grainer, Munchen. Collection Didier Hanson | src Flickr

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

Dance study by de Meyer

Adolf de Meyer :: [Dance study], ca. 1912. Platinum print | source The Metropolitan Museum of Art via wikimedia commons

It has been suggested that this photograph, the only [known] nude by de Meyer, has some connection to the Ballets Russes, but the nature of that link remains mysterious. The image vibrates with an uneasy erotic tension, a product of the figure’s exposed torso, startled body language, and disguised identity. (quoted from The Met)

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