Iconic futuristic German film Metropolis premiered on the 10th of January, 1927. Filmed in 1925 but set in the year 2026, the film is set in a city with ruling elites and poor workers living beneat…
Source: On this day: the premiere of Metropolis | In Times Gone By…
Reminds me of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” Prague 1968.
A great painter who perished in the Holocaust. His work reflects the dire times.
An interesting posting-reminds me to research this further!
Great photographs-I wonder where they came from? Thanks for another interesting posting.
A seasonal poem:-
Foto: ©Constanze
~ Januargefühl (II) ~
Das Jahr ist um, ich malte es mir bunt,
das Winterweiß der kargen, kalten Tage,
und hielt die Strahlen einer goldnen Stund
wie ein Geschenk, ein Lächeln ohne Klage.
Dann endlich flog der Frühling übers Land,
ein lichter Vogel, der mein Herz mir band
an alle blauen Himmel, grünen Räume,
er sang ein Sommerlied in meine Träume.
Und Sommer kam und mit ihm seidne Rosen,
purpurner Klang und Duft und Sinnlichsein,
ihm wollte ich das volle Leben weihn
und trug in Händen erste Herbstzeitlosen.
Entblättert fiel mir alles welk zu Boden,
doch blieb ein Leuchten auf dem müden Grund
und Januar singt neue Sehnsuchtsoden
mit zarten Hoffnungsblüten im Verbund.
©Constanze
~ Januargefühl (I) ~ siehe hier: https://wolfregensconstanze.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/der-schnee-fiel-wie-ein-schleier/
Thanks for this useful and interesting post.
On January 4, 1786 many enlightened people of Berlin mourned the death of the once most prominent German Jewish thinker and father of the German Jewish Enlightenment, Moses Mendelssohn. The first in a long line of great Berlin personalities died at 56 in his house in Jägerstraße surrounded by his wife, Fromet, and their six children. The cause of death was stroke, which would later also kill several other members of his family.
Portrait of Moses Mendelssohn by Johann Gotthard Müller.
Mendelssohn´s life-long aim was to bring enlightenment to Orthodox Jewish people locked up in ghettos and treated as non-citizens in most of the communities – also in Berlin – and in this way to allow them to become part of the society they shunned and they were shunned by. Having grown up in a small Jewish ghetto in Dessau himself, he decided that only by opening up, learning German…
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A very interesting and informative article, many thanks!
Lovis Corinth didn’t just spend his time in Munich drinking red wine and champagne, but experimented in his painting and evolved his mature style. In 1897, he moved studio within Munich, and started to make increasingly frequent visits to Berlin, where he was able to obtain lucrative commissions for portraits. When the Berlin Secession was founded in 1898, Corinth was among its members. By 1900, he was renting a studio in Berlin, and in the autumn of 1901, he closed his studio in Munich and moved to Berlin.
Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), Ellÿ (1898), oil on canvas, 192.1 x 112.1 cm, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.
He had no shortage of attractive young women, like Ellÿ (1898), to paint. But he pressed on with his campaign to improve his style and technique.
Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), Reclining Nude (1899), oil on canvas, 75 × 120 cm, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen. Wikimedia Commons.
Reclining Nude
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Like Zenadia Serabriakova, avery great artist -see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Goncharova
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