‘Max Ernst, Éluard, Picasso, Breton, Cocteau or Man Ray: the list of her friends reads like a register of cultural history of the 20th century.’ With these words Michael Koetzle describes in the German edition of Vogue the ...

The aestheticising and erotically charged representation of female self-murderers became well known as beautiful death as a theme in 19th century art and literature. This theme has recently ...