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Artist: WALTER SCHNACKENBERG (1880-1961) Size: 34 x 49 in./86.5 x 124.6 cm Oscar Consée, München Although she had no formal dance training, Lena Amsel rose to stardom in the vaudeville and theatrical circuits of Dresden and Berlin before moving into film around 1918. This poster is from that pivotal year when she burst into film, in part due to her friendship with Max Reinhardt. Schnackenberg depicts her as an expressive, swan-like figure, contorting at impossible angles while her shadow plays on the back wall. She would die in an automobile crash in 1929, while racing against André Derain.