Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) - "best Seife"

Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) - "Best Seife"
Circa 1925-1929
Mixed charcoal and watercolor techniques
Signed lower right "J.MAMMEN"
Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) was a German painter and designer. His works are part of the currents of New Objectivity and Symbolism. In 1927 his paintings and drawings fill the covers and pages of a multitude of newspapers, magazines and satirical journals such as "Jugend", "Die Dame", "Die Schöne Frau", "Der Junggeselle", "Simplicissimus", "Uhu and “Ulk”. These illustrations depict with a critical eye the shortcomings of Berlin society where bourgeois, socialites and lesbians rub shoulders. Our composition is the perfect demonstration because in this tumult and this extravagance, we feel the sarcasm of the artist who denounces the futility of the modern world. Bourgeois men comfortably installed in their seats accompanied by young socialites are openly the subject of an incisive caricature; just like the male character in the foreground pinching the buttocks of one of these two companions. Could it be the eye of an avant-garde feminist artist who denounces a machismo still well anchored in this ambiguous society of the 1920s where women are trying to emancipate themselves?