Posts Tagged: Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
Ludwig Christian Haeusser, 1920
Quite possibly the craziest story about Weimar Germany you’ve never heard
Ludwig Christian Haeusser, 1920
Quite possibly the craziest story about Weimar Germany you’ve never heard
Strange Flowers guide to Vienna, part 2
… in which we head further afield and meet Peter Altenberg and some other folk, but honestly, it’s mainly Peter Altenberg.
Strange Flowers guide to Vienna, part 2
… in which we head further afield and meet Peter Altenberg and some other folk, but honestly, it’s mainly Peter Altenberg.
Artists and Prophets
A secret history of visionaries, provocateurs and al fresco evangelists
Places: Casa Grande
100 years since the death of artist and lifestyle pioneer Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
Places: Casa Grande
100 years since the death of artist and lifestyle pioneer Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
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.
Dress-down Friday: Gusto Gräser
Gräser’s idealism, ascetic lifestyle and incessant wanderings bring to mind a Herman Hesse character. And little wonder; Hesse was one of Gräser’s followers and worked both the personality and teachings of his guru through several of his books.
Dress-down Friday: Gusto Gräser
Gräser’s idealism, ascetic lifestyle and incessant wanderings bring to mind a Herman Hesse character. And little wonder; Hesse was one of Gräser’s followers and worked both the personality and teachings of his guru through several of his books.
Dress-down Friday: Bohemian Schwabing
Their living habits may have been unconventional but by day, at least, many of the Schwabing Bohemians appeared suprisingly conservative, barely distinguishable from public servants of the era. But this was only part of the story…
Dress-down Friday: Bohemian Schwabing
Their living habits may have been unconventional but by day, at least, many of the Schwabing Bohemians appeared suprisingly conservative, barely distinguishable from public servants of the era. But this was only part of the story…
Places: Miramare
Maximilian and Charlotte’s imperial adventure was one of the most absurd episodes in the gothic carnival of wretchedness that characterised the last few decades of Habsburg rule, and its memory hung heavy over Miramare.
Places: Miramare
Maximilian and Charlotte’s imperial adventure was one of the most absurd episodes in the gothic carnival of wretchedness that characterised the last few decades of Habsburg rule, and its memory hung heavy over Miramare.
Dress-down Friday: Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
Diefenbach pronounced the virtues of free love and the vice of cigarettes, preaching temperance and vegetarianism to a city sodden with beer and swollen with wurst. But it was his approach to dress which most alarmed Wilhelmine Germany.
Dress-down Friday: Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
Diefenbach pronounced the virtues of free love and the vice of cigarettes, preaching temperance and vegetarianism to a city sodden with beer and swollen with wurst. But it was his approach to dress which most alarmed Wilhelmine Germany.
Cosmic countess
One of the key characters associated with bohemian Munich was writer Countess Fanny zu Reventlow. Growing up in northern Germany, it was evident early on that she was of rebellious cast. “How stifling it is to be a ‘young girl from a good family’!” she exclaimed at one point.
Cosmic countess
One of the key characters associated with bohemian Munich was writer Countess Fanny zu Reventlow. Growing up in northern Germany, it was evident early on that she was of rebellious cast. “How stifling it is to be a ‘young girl from a good family’!” she exclaimed at one point.
Back to naturism
Photos of Diefenbach are uncannily redolent of 1960s hippy commune-dwellers. Beginning in the 1880s, Diefenbach took to wearing a caftan and sandals (or nothing at all), gave up meat, alcohol and tobacco while espousing free love, pacifism and sun worship.
Back to naturism
Photos of Diefenbach are uncannily redolent of 1960s hippy commune-dwellers. Beginning in the 1880s, Diefenbach took to wearing a caftan and sandals (or nothing at all), gave up meat, alcohol and tobacco while espousing free love, pacifism and sun worship.
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