Atelier Manassé

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The Atelier Manassé was a photo studio in Vienna and Berlin . Founded by the married couple Adorján von Wlassics and Olga Spolarics in Vienna around 1924 (in this year the studio's first illustrations appeared in magazines) and operated under different names, including Wlasics (sic! The studio's first name), WOG (in Berlin) and Manassé-Ricoll (who have been running the studio in Vienna since assistants). The Atelier Manassé became well known in the 1920s for its erotic and glamorous (nude) photographs, mainly of women. The artists liked to combine eroticism with surreal motifs in their photographs.

Stars and starlets could also be photographed, for example Rudolph Valentino (around 1922), Christiane Delyne (around 1931), Betty Bird (around 1926) and Lil Dagover (around 1930). After the death of Adorján von Wlassics, the studio's fame faded.

literature

  • Monika Faber: The woman as you want her, glamor, cult and corrected body, Atelier Manassé 1922–1938 . Vienna, Munich 1998.
  • Magnus Hirschfeld : Moral history of the post-war period . Leipzig, Vienna 1931–1932 (2 vols.).