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Para-Modernism. Life Reform Movements from 1900 onwards

  • Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, Per Aspera ad Astra, 1892 © Magistrat der Stadt Hadamar, Photo: Norbert Miguletz

Chapter 1 – BEING FREE

  • Mary Wigman on Lake Maggiore © Mary Wigman Foundation in the German Dance Archive Cologne / SK Stiftung Kultur, Photo: Munich City Library / Monacensia, HB F 19
  • Gusto Gräser © Münchner Stadtbibliothek / Monacensia, L 2897-1
  • Martin Hesse, Hermann Hesse smoking in the library, 1935 © KEYSTONE/MARTIN-HESSE-ERBEN/Martin Hesse
  • Gustaf Nagel, postcard, 1905 © Scan: Robert Eikmeyer
  • Gustav Gräser (1879–1958), 1904–1905 © Archivio di Stato dei Cantone Ticino
  • Monte Verità light and air huts, Casa Rossa, entrance, general views, Russian house with Semiramis [Theosophical entrance], 1907 © Archivio di Stato dei Cantone Ticino
  • Joseph Beuys, La Rivoluzione siamo noi, 1971 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Photo: Bastian Geza Aschoff, 2021 © Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH

Chapter 2 – NUDA VERITAS

  • Gustav Klimt, Nuda Veritas, 1899 © KHM-Museumsverband, Theatermuseum
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, The Dancing Mary Wigman, 1933 © Museum Folkwang Essen – ARTOTHEK
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  • Johann Adam Meisenbach, Dancers on Lake Maggiore near Ascona (by Rudolf von Laban), 1914 © Kunsthaus Zürich, Library, Suzanne Perrottet Estate, 1990, Photo: © Heirs of Johann Adam Meisenbach
  • Johann Adam Meisenbach, Dancers on Lake Maggiore near Ascona (by Rudolf von Laban), 1914 © Kunsthaus Zürich, Library, Suzanne Perrottet Estate, 1990, Photo: © Heirs of Johann Adam Meisenbach
  • Johann Adam Meisenbach, Dancers on Lake Maggiore near Ascona (by Rudolf von Laban), 1914 © Kunsthaus Zürich, Library, Suzanne Perrottet Estate, 1990, Photo: © Heirs of Johann Adam Meisenbach

Chapter 5 – LOOKING INTO THE ABYSSES

  • Ludwig Christian Haeusser, Ich bin der Weg und die Wahrheit und das Leben der Übermensch und die Auferstehung und die Neue Zeit!, 1919 © BayHStA, Plakatsammlung 18930

Chapter 6 – LOHELAND

  • Beiderwand, Modell 566 © Daniel Bley, Vonderau Museum
  • The Loheland joinery, reconstruction of the statics/balance exercise © Daniel Bley, Vonderau Museum
  • Louise Langgaard, Untitled (Back act), c. 1905–1911 © Daniel Bley, Vonderau Museum
  • Loheland photo studio, Ball toss, around 1930 © Loheland Foundation Archive
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  • Loheland photo studio, Springs/Junp, around 1930 © Loheland Foundation Archive
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  • Bertha Günther, Ohne Titel, Fotogramm, um 1920/21 © Loheland-Stiftung Archiv
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  • Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, photogram, 1923–1925 © Museum Folkwang Essen –ARTOTHEK
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Chapter 7 – THE SPIRITUAL EYE

  • Fidus, Prayer of Light, around 1910 © bpk / Deutsches Historisches Museum / Arne Psille
  • Goshka Macuga, Madame Blavatsky © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Courtesy the artist and Monika Schnetkamp Collection
  • Conrad Röntgen, Hand of Anna Bertha Röntgen, before 1900 © Deutsches Röntgen-Museum
  • František Kupka, Series C V (V34), 1938/46 © Würth Collection, Inv. 4456, Photo: Ivan Baschang, Munich/Paris
  • František Kupka, Amorpha, 1913 © Archives Galerie Le Minotaure

Chapter 8 – CALIFORNICATION

  • Bonnie MacLean, Poster, 1967 © Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, Scans: Collections Lutz Hieber / Gisela Theising
  • Poster Andy Warhol for Suhrkamp, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Right Society (ARS), New York, Photo: DLA Marbach
  • Peter Stackpole, LIFE May 10, 1948, Eden Ahbez © Photo by Peter Stackpole/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock
  • Stanley Mouse & Alton Kelley, Jim Kweskin Jug Band; Avalon Ballroom, 1966 © Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, Scans: Collections Lutz Hieber / Gisela Theising
  • Gypsy Boots vor der Health Hut © The Estate of Gypsy Boots
  • Alphonse Mucha, Plakat für Zigarettenpapier, Marke „Job“, 1887 © Kunstmuseen Krefeld - Dirk Rose – ARTOTHEK
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