Another picture, Tilla Durieux? Hardly anyone had to sit portraits for artists more often than Berlin’s biggest stage star of the pre-war period. An exhibition now explores why.
Reader P. from Cologne wrote that he thought he knew very well who the supposedly unknown woman was in the portrait of a “lady with a cigarette”, which was shown on the occasion of an exhibition on the Dresden turn-of-the-century painter Oskar Zwintscher was shown in the SZ exactly a year ago. In his opinion, it was none other than actress Tilla Durieux. And just when, after a little initial research, it was found that this woman was actually one of the most popular motifs in German art in the first third of the 20th century, they actually judged in Vienna a whole exhibition with portraits of Tilla Durieux.