I chose to try Gabrielle’s and Kate’s Degenerate Art experiment. For this I visited the Berlinische Galerie in Kreuzberg, where they are currently exhibiting Berliner art from 1890 to 1980. For my translation I chose to work with Jeanne Mammen’s Valeska Gert (undated, before 1929), which was not featured in the Degenerate Art Exhibition, nor do I believe were any works by Mammen, but the style and the subject (the eponymous and legendary Valeska Gert, whom you should look up if you don’t know her) struck me as utterly unacceptable under the Nazi ideology. The painting can be found here (it’s the big one in the background, click on it to see the whole thing).

Below is my visual translation of the painting, entitled:

Time and a Half on Labor Day

(text is from the Sex Workers in Europe Manifesto found here)