With a large exhibition, the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn wants to add new facets to the view of the 1920s. “When you think of the 1920s, images immediately come to mind: the golden 1920s, Babylon Berlin,” said curator Agnieszka Lulinska. “We’re only marginally interested in that. We’re trying to broaden it.”
The 1920s brought perhaps the greatest changes for women. “It really is the decade of the woman,” Lulinska said. “The woman smokes, the woman drives, the woman boxes.” The “working girl” became the addressee of car and cigarette advertising and provoked the male world with androgynous chic. The short haircut invented in Paris, which became known as “Bubikopf” in Germany, initiated a revolution.
Works on display include a self-portrait by Edvard Munch, photographs by lesbian photographer Claude Cahun and the painting “Soccer” by Russian painter Alexander Deinka. The exhibition “1920s! In the Kaleidoscope of Modernity” opens on Saturday (April 1) and remains open until July 30.
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