Publication in Russian on the Zen blog
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In this portrait you can feel the soul and revolution in the idea of a woman!
The pose, those unreal hands, the way the stocking slides down the knee, the monocle, short hair and mini-dress, the cigarette and the cocktail.
When Dix painted this image in 1927, he depicted a side of German society that many chose to overlook: the striking bohemian personality, the female intellectual, the New Frau, representing new discourses on sexuality, equality and urban mass society.
The author of the portrait depicted his heroine as an icon of the era.
Otto Dix "Portrait of the journalist Sylvia von Harden"
In general, the art of the Weimar Republic is so interesting. The horrors of the First World War, hyperinflation, the lives of ordinary people are going downhill. But at the same time, Germany during this period was the epicenter of intellectual and cultural life, the topics of gender and sexuality were being rethought.
New objectivity / Neue Sachlichkeit, Bauhaus, Frankfurt School of Sociology and Philosophy, cabaret, Marlene Dietrich, cocaine, the humiliating conditions of the Treaty of Versailles for Germany, the streets of Berlin are full of veterans and cripples returning from the front, many women are forced into prostitution, money has become worthless.
There is something endlessly alluring and fascinating in such contradictory historical eras.
I would like to read more about this...
Ekaterina Sveshnikova, England, London, Oxford University
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Publication in Russian on the Zen blog
https://dzen.ru/a/ZheOV2SrbB5TzbtF
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