Tag: full length portrait

Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, 1891

Napoleon Sarony :: French actress Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, New York, 1891. Cabinet card. | src Harvard Library
Napoleon Sarony :: French actress Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, New York, 1891. Cabinet card. | src Harvard Library

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Else Neuländer Simon, also known as Yva :: Painter Max Liebermann, Berlin, ca. 1928 | via kvetchlandia

Max Liebermann was a renowned Jewish painter, printmaker and long-time President of the Prussian Academy of Arts until he was forced from his position by the Nazis. While watching the Nazis stage their victory march through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin following their assumption of state power in 1933, Liebermann said to a friend “Ich kann gar nicht soviel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte” (I could not possibly eat as much as I would like to throw up).

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Nijinsky in ‘Le dieu bleu’, 1912

Vaslav Nijinsky dans Le Dieu bleu [photographie de Waléry (1866-1935)], 1912. | src BnF ~ National Library of France
Vaslav Nijinsky dans Le Dieu bleu [photographie de Waléry (1866-1935)], 1912. | src BnF ~ National Library of France
Vaslav Nijinsky dans Le Dieu bleu [photographie de Waléry (1866-1935)], 1912. | src BnF ~ National Library of France
Vaslav Nijinsky dans Le Dieu bleu [photographie de Waléry (1866-1935)], 1912. | src BnF ~ National Library of France

Le Dieu bleu :: Légende hindoue en 1 acte, chorégraphie de Michel Fokine. Paris : Théâtre du Châtelet, 13-05-1912. Photographe présumé: Waléry (1866-1935).