Vintage gelatin silver print
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25. cm.)
Blindstamp lower right edge by the photographer Maurice Goldberg. Signed boldly by Kreutzberg.

Full-length pose in costume for "Three Mad Figures"

Maurice Goldberg
Goldberg was a New York portrait artist whose work often appeared in periodicals, particularly Vanity Fair and Shadowland.

Harald KREUTZBERG (1902 - 1968)
Along with Mary Wigman and Gret Palucca, Kreutzberg was among the leading protagonists of a new dance movement in the 1920s - 30s. Trained at the Dresden Ballet School, Kreutzberg also studied modern dance with Mary Wigman and Rudolf Laban. Beginning in 1927 he appeared in plays directed by Max Reinhardt and in 1929 went with Reinhardt to New York City. Kreutzberg then toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe with the dancer Yvonne Georgi, and in 1932 he joined Ruth Page for tours of the U.S. and the Far East. For the remainder of his concert career, he performed primarily as a soloist; his inventive choreographic style combined free dance movements with such elements of the theatre as mime and pictorial costuming. His works range from the tragic allegory of Der Engel Luzifer (“The Angel Lucifer”) to the comic grotesque of Der Hochzeitsstrauss (“The Wedding Bouquet”). After retiring from the stage in 1959 he choreographed for others and taught at his own school, established in 1955 in Bern, Switzerland.

Literature: Frank-Manuel Peter, The dancer Harald Kreutzberg, Berlin: Edition Hentrich, 1997