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Christian Schad, Sonja (1928)
In this portrait by Christian Schad (1894-1982), Sonja, a secretary at the Romanischen Café in Berlin, emerges as the archetype of the “New Woman” [neue Frau]. The cosmopolitan café setting and the subject’s cultivated androgyny underscore the notion of urban modernity.