1930s berlin

Germany emerged from the First World War broken and disillusioned. Defeat in the Great War heralded the end of the monarchy, with the Kaiser giving way to the Weimar Republic, named after the small German city that had once been a hotbed of both artistic and scientific progress. Before long,…

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Here is a collection of 43 photos that shows street scenes of Berlin during the 1930s.

The International Center of Photography, in conjunction with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, now offers digital access to its Roman Vishniac archive.

Resi Nightclub in Berlin, 1930.

This beautiful hat by famous Melbourne Milliner Thomas Harrison I have named my Iris Tree Hat. In a biography of Nancy Cunard by Anne Chisholm there is a photo of Poet Iris Tree and writer Nancy Cu…

Travel back to 1920s Berlin and the interwar period when art culture and sexual freedom in the city were all at their peak.

The Hett Art Gallery and Museum in Chesterfield, Indiana was built to house artifacts from the spiritualist movement, most notably artwork done by spiritualist mediums when in contact with the spirit world, referred to in their installation as “Psychic Art and Inspirational Painting.” There are portraits painted by, among others, the psychic Bangs sisters who painted portraits of spirits with whom they communicated, who were later identified as actual people who had passed on, and a rather…

Berlin in the "Golden Twenties' was a vibrant and dynamic place to be in. Berlin became the third largest municipality in the world, after the Greater