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Description
Gerty Simon was both a chronicler and a representative of 'Weimar Culture' - that (in)famous flowering of progressive, modernist and cutting-edge arts and sciences in 1920s Germany, with Berlin at its centre. Dr Jochen Hung gives a critical introduction to the history of the Weimar Republic and the era that shaped Simon and her sitters. He also traces the historical development of the notion of 'Weimar Culture' itself and the role émigrés like Simon played in it.
Period
5 Sept 2019
Held at
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, United Kingdom