Lotte Pritzel

Charlotte Pritzel (30 January 1887 Breslau - 17 February 1952 Berlin) was a German costume designer, doll artist, and draftswoman.

Her dolls, which were initially flexible and were made of wax at the latest from 1917 and decorated with gauze, lace, glass beads and brocade fragments, sold for high prices.

Her 1919 lithograph cycle “Dance – Movements and Costumes” inspired dancers such as Anita Berber or Niddy Impekoven .

Rainer Maria Rilke's wrote text for "About the Dolls of Lotte Pritzel", published in 1921 with illustrations by the artist.

The "artist who likes to work while intoxicated with morphine"  explained at most that her graceful and desperate-looking figures were "creatures of her own" or "inner visions that have become material".

German art and decoration, 1914