The New Yorker has published a short text about the brilliant 1920’s flapper cartoons by illustrator Barbara Shermund, reflecting a changing image of femininity: “The women in Barbara Shermund’s New Yorker cartoons seemed to be in charge of their lives and talked about their dreams and ideas. They were confused, too, because the roles for women were changing, often not fast enough.”
Category: Art History
Bauhaus centenary programme
In 2019 Germany celebrates 100 years of Bauhaus. The centenary year is packed with events and exhibitions, including the opening of two new museums, a Bauhaus festival, and even a major TV series based on the romantic relationship between Walter Gropius and Dörte Helm.
There is a dedicated website listing all events all over Germany, from Ulm to Weimar.
Die Dame returns
Last year, 75 years after is ceased publication, the legendary Weimar magazine Die Dame returned to German newsstands. Since then, the magazine has been published only three times, with the fourth issue due to appear on 22 November.
According to the Axel Springer publishing company, which took over all Ullstein titles after WWII, the magazine combines ‘the elegance and intelligence, the spirit and extravagance of 1920s Berlin with the attitude and culture, the style and the fierceness of today.’
Exhibition: Magic Realism, 1919-33
If you find yourself in London over the next few months, make sure to visit the free exhibition MAGIC REALISM: ART IN WEIMAR GERMANY 1919-33 at the Tate Modern. The exhibition draws on paintings from The George Economou Collection and many of the artworks not ordinarily on public display. The Guardian calls it “a truly revelatory voyage through art and history”.
Exhibition on Jazz Age fashion
The Fashion & Textile Museum in London is currently showing clothing and fashion photography from the 1920s, “a glittering display of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion from 1919 to 1929”. According to the exhibition catalogue, “women’s clothing in the 1920s reflected dizzying social change on an unprecedented scale. From Paris and London to New York and Hollywood, the decade following the Great War offered the modern woman a completely new style of dressing.”
The exhibition programme includes Charleston dance classes and a talk by Caroline Cox about “1920s Hair & Beauty”. Continue reading “Exhibition on Jazz Age fashion”