Art Deco was an innovative artistic language, apt to describe the new world and the new lifestyle. It propose a form of art created for the everyday life
In the 1920s, an entire, quite large section of society, the middle-class, knew an unprecedented growth in prosperity, which characterised the entire era
The Twenties were a time a great innovation. The old world that had existed in the 1800s died in the fires and destruction of WWI. The 1920s saw the emergence of a new world.
Avant Garde artists chose to walk away from a naturalistic representation of reality to sink deep into the human soul and try to represent what was there
My tweets for the Twitter #HerosAndVillains of February 2020. Meet my main character Ingeborg and my villain Lotte
“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.” – W.B. Yeats
“But I don’t need this kind of things. I’ve come to terms with the war long ago.” Which was a stupid thing to say to Dagmar, who of course knew a lot better #Faritalereteling
“I think there’s something about the Irish experience – that we had to have a sense of humor or die” – Frank McCourt
The 1920s sound a lot like us, a time of wild change and insecurities and yet great hope for the future. I think they can teach us a lot about ourselves. Maybe they can teach us how to bring our Twenties someplace different.
“Tell me something, aunty,” Ingeborg almost pleaded. “Grete’s plan makes sense. I know we should play along. Then tell me why I don’t want to.”
Rosie wants to learn what happened to a friend of her grandma’s who disappeared after the Bloody Sunday of 1920. Unexplicably, she finds herself back then
A Snow White retelling set in 1920s Germany Episode 17 Late Lunch Ingeborg entered the library and found Dagmar and Grete already waiting. “Sorry for the delay,” she said, closing the door behind her. She had to change for dinner in record time after her trip across the meadow. Grete brushed the matter away with…