Category Archives: Gallery
Oskar Schlemmer | Triadic Ballet designs
The return of the Bauhaus polymath’s revolutionary 1922 dance piece
Oskar Schlemmer | Triadic Ballet designs
The return of the Bauhaus polymath’s revolutionary 1922 dance piece
Georges Bottini | Lorrain illustrations
Creatures of the Parisian night in a 1904 novel by Jean Lorrain
Georges Bottini | Lorrain illustrations
Creatures of the Parisian night in a 1904 novel by Jean Lorrain
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven | poems
The “Dada Baroness” blurs the line between art and poetry
Melchior Lechter | book designs
Goethe, George and more
Simeon Solomon | drawings
Small-scale works by the great Pre-Raphaelite artist
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach | paintings
Diefenbach’s paintings of figures amid swirling sea- and landscapes are less often remembered than his lifestyle innovations.
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach | paintings
Diefenbach’s paintings of figures amid swirling sea- and landscapes are less often remembered than his lifestyle innovations.
Leon Bakst | Ballets Russes designs
From 1908 to 1922, Russian-born Bakst designed sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s troupe.
Leon Bakst | Ballets Russes designs
From 1908 to 1922, Russian-born Bakst designed sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s troupe.
Omega Workshops | designs
Roger Fry’s design team reimagined the everyday objects around us.
Hilma af Klint | abstract paintings
An unsung pioneer of non-figurative art.
Wenzel Hablik | construction studies
Hablik’s pseudo-architectural designs served as monuments to his imagination rather than feasible plans for construction.
Wenzel Hablik | construction studies
Hablik’s pseudo-architectural designs served as monuments to his imagination rather than feasible plans for construction.
Yva | photographs
Yva was one of an extraordinary wave of female photographers active in Weimar-era Berlin.
Yva | photographs
Yva was one of an extraordinary wave of female photographers active in Weimar-era Berlin.
Alfred Pearse | de Rougemont illustrations
Boy’s Own-style drawings to accompany tall tales of danger and adventure…
Alfred Pearse | de Rougemont illustrations
Boy’s Own-style drawings to accompany tall tales of danger and adventure…
Frank Eugene | performers
Eugene was one of the first to make the case for photography as an artistic medium.
Frank Eugene | performers
Eugene was one of the first to make the case for photography as an artistic medium.
Elisàr von Kupffer | paintings
The ritualistic poses of Kupffer’s ephebes suggest not so much an orgy as a clothes-optional Rosicrucian jamboree.
Elisàr von Kupffer | paintings
The ritualistic poses of Kupffer’s ephebes suggest not so much an orgy as a clothes-optional Rosicrucian jamboree.
Unknown | The Dandy’s Perambulations
The dandies presented in this charmingly illustrated, uncredited children’s book are bumbling, anxious and coddled.
Unknown | The Dandy’s Perambulations
The dandies presented in this charmingly illustrated, uncredited children’s book are bumbling, anxious and coddled.
Georgina Berkeley | photomontage
This English noblewoman’s methods of incorporating fragments of photographs into beguilingly strange compositions, which she practised around the late 1860s, prefigured Surrealist collage by about 60 years.
Georgina Berkeley | photomontage
This English noblewoman’s methods of incorporating fragments of photographs into beguilingly strange compositions, which she practised around the late 1860s, prefigured Surrealist collage by about 60 years.
Strange Flowers 