Images - "Modern Life": Diagnoses, Prescriptions, Alternatives

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11.	Women’s Reform Dress (1903) The constricting and uncomfortable aspects of nineteenth-century women’s clothing were epitomized by the corset. Dress reform, which arose from criticism of Victorian clothing, led to more comfortable....
12.	The Berlin Secession (1904) In the late nineteenth-century, progressive artists in various cities throughout German-speaking Europe began to withdraw – or secede – from official salons, traditional artists’ societies, and art....
13.	Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet (c. 1905) Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered one of the great lyrical poets of the twentieth century. Often dark and emotional, his work is generally elusive and difficult to interpret. Rilke often....
14.	Thomas Mann (1905) Thomas Mann (1875-1955), the most accomplished German author of the twentieth century, is the subject of this 1905 engraving by Johannes Lindner (1839-1906). Mann’s breakthrough novel Buddenbrooks....
15.	Salon from the Gründerzeit (c. 1905) Here, we see the salon of Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), one of Wilhelmine Germany’s most important art historians and a founder of the modern German museum. His house was located at Uhlandstrasse....
16.	Program of Die Brücke (1906) In the early twentieth century, artists formed groups to promote their common artistic and philosophical goals. Die Brücke (The Bridge), founded in Dresden in 1905, was one such group. Founding....
17.	Third German Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Dresden (1906) Held in Dresden in 1906, the Third German Arts and Crafts Exhibition signaled a new direction in design and interior decoration and led to the founding of the German Werkbund the following year.....
18.	Third German Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Dresden: Dining Room by Henry van de Velde (1906) Held in Dresden in 1906, the Third German Arts and Crafts Exhibition signaled a new direction in design and interior decoration, and led to the founding of the German Werkbund the following....
19.	Peter Behrens, AEG Clock (1908) Peter Behrens (1868-1940) was an influential architect and designer who combined art, industry, and technology to create objects for everyday use. From 1907 to 1914, he worked as an artistic advisor....
20.	Türkenstrasse in Munich’s Schwabing District (1910s) This photograph shows Türkenstrasse in Munich’s Schwabing district. Around 1900, this residential area west of the English Garden was a hotbed of cultural activity and a center of Bohemian life.....
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