Bohemian Party at W.Z.’s

Artists gather in the Berlin studio of Willi Zierath (1890–1938) for an all-night party of drinking and conversation. Ludwig Meidner chronicled the social life of Berlin’s “bohemian” art community in the 1910s, a decade that included World War I. He was closest with the poets of the Café des Westens, nicknamed “Café Meglomania” for the personalities who met there. At gatherings like these, artists exchanged ideas with like-minded writers, directors, and dancers, an inspiring environment that made Berlin the center for new art in Germany.