Glamour! From It-Girl to Glittering Lady - Exhibition

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Glamour! From It-Girl to Glittering Lady – Depictions of Women in the Late Weimar Republic
February 17, 2008 – May 12, 2008
Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin


© Tamara de Lempicka, Das Telefon II, 1930, Kollektion W. Joop; Aufnahme: Markus Hilbich, Berlin / © Eugene Robert Richee, Marlene Dietrich in „Song of Songs“, 1933, Deutsche Kinemathek – Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin

The exhibition Glamour! From It-Girl to Glittering Lady – Depictions of Women in the late Weimar Republic is devoted to the image of women in the time between 1928 and 1933. Right up to the present day, the glittering and elegant style and the film and fashion photography of the late 1920s and early 1930s represent the essence of “glamour”. Whether one thinks of the models in the photographs of the successful Berlin fashion photograph Yva or the star portraits of Hollywood and Ufa actresses from the time: these cool and perfect beauties have not lost their aesthetic appeal for us today.Worldly film stars, models with inaccessible erotic appeal, elegant, big-city women – in the 1920s the “lady” replaced the “girl” or the “garconne”. Many women focussed on what they saw in fashion magazines and movie screens. The new, more feminine style which women saw led them to change their own appearance: a new style came into being.In five thematic clusters about fashion, movies and actresses, women in society, athletics and the “Georg-Schicht Prize for the Loveliest German Portrait of a Woman”, this exhibition seeks to answer the question of what brought about the change in the depiction of women and how this change showed itself.Alongside nearly forgotten artists such as Lotte Laserstein or Lieselotte Friedlaender, works by Christian Schad, Tamara de Lempicka, Willy Jaeckel, Leo von König, Ernesto de Fiori, Rudolf Schlichter, Yva and Jeanne Mammen are presented.Even when it is the case that today we, knowing as we do the dictatorship which followed it, sense a more conservative character in the final years of the first German democracy than the restless, experimental and libertine days of the Roaring Twenties might indicate, still the art, literature, photography and film of this period brought forth things of significance and interest.

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© Marion (Berlin), Kappe aus schwarz-weißem Fantasiegeflecht, um 1931, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek; Aufnahme: Repro Katz, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek /
© Jeanne Mammen, Im Theater, Titelblatt Ulk Nr. 16, 58. Jg., 19. April 1929, Förderverein Jeanne-Mammen-Stiftung e.V., Aufnahme: privat

Catalogue (in German, E. A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig) with articles from Ursel Berger, Verena Dollenmaier, Birgit Haase, Wolfgang Joop, Susanne Meyer-Büser and Werner Sudendorf.

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