A Concerned Wife
Ferdinand Freiherr von Reznicek
1908
Ferdinand von Reznicek captures the decadent nightlife of early 20th-century Berlin in this satirical illustration from 1908. A glamorous woman in a flowing blue gown and long white gloves leans intimately into her tuxedo-clad partner during a passionate dance, with champagne bottles waiting on a nearby table. The title, 'A Concerned Wife,' adds a layer of dry humor typical of Reznicek's work for the famous magazine Simplicissimus, suggesting that her 'concern' might be a playful facade amidst the era's fashionable moral looseness and high-society flirtations.
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