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Valeska Gert posing comically

James Abbe :: German dancer Valeska Gert posing comically on top of a hamper, ca 1926. She shocked the audience at the Champs Elysees by following the dancing tradition of Isadora Duncan. (Photo by James Abbe for General Photographic Agency). | src and hi-res Getty Images

Valeska Gert, 1918

Atelier Leopold :: Valeska Gert, 1918. German card (Munich). Collection: Didier Hanson. | src Flickr
“Jewish cabaret artist Waleska Gert (1892-1978) and her dark, aquiline features became famous in Berlin with her radical modern dances. She was also active as an artists’ model and appeared in several classics of the Weimar cinema. After a comeback in Fellini’s Giulietta degli spiriti / Juliet of the Spirits (1965), she worked with the film makers of the New German Cinema of the 1970s.” (quoted from source)