Glitter and doom german portraits from the 1920s november 14 2006 february 19 2007 share print exhibition overview glitter and doom german portraits from the 1920s buy tickets exhibition overview although often romanticized as the backdrop for erotic cabaret shows and sexual licentiousness german cities of the 1920s were actually in the throes of rampant unemployment . Glitter and doom german portraits from the 1920s this title is out of print the years between the world wars in germany were years of glitter and doom after a crushing defeat in world war i germans were facing economic catastrophe failed revolution and the disintegration of the old order. Glitter and doom german portraits from the 1920s metropolitan museum of art amazonde rewald sabine buruma ian eberle matthias fremdsprachige bucher. Glitter and doom german portraits from the 1920s return to glitter and doom self portrait with champagne glass hide caption self portrait with champagne glass 1919 max beckmann german 1884 1950 oil on canvas 25 9 16 x 21 7 8 in 65 x 555 cm private collection courtesy w wittrock berlin young argentine hide caption young argentine 1929 max beckmann german 1884 1950 . In a famous cartoon by charles addams which shows an audience reacting to a movie everyone appears horrified sobbing distraught except for one man whos grinning with glee that man was me at