Between the wars
Bosc d’Anjou posted a photo:
Christian Schad (1894-1982) Graf [Count] St. Genois d’Anneaucourt (1927). In the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
The Museum explains: “A Dadaist before becoming one of the main exponents of Neue Sachlichkeit [New Objectivity], Christian Schad cast a ruthless eye on the world between the wars. The portrait of Graf St. Genois d’Anneaucourt shows a figure of Viennese high society, a displaced Hungarian aristocrat, posing with the companion of hid nocturnal jaunts, Baroness Glaser, on his right, and a famous Berlin transvestite on his left. The weary, barely-clothed bodies and sardonic faces, rendered in sharp detail through the traditional technique of oil on wood, convey the image of a decadent nihilistic society.”
