藝人約瑟芬·貝克Josephine Baker， 法國英雄 Josephine Baker, Still Moving

Josephine Baker, Still Moving

She entertained Europe between the wars and still inspires artists and activists now, as a new exhibition in Berlin shows.

A 1920s portrait of Josephine Baker by George Hoyningen-Huene on display at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.Credit...Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times

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Born #OnThisDay is the iconic dancer and singer #JosephineBaker.

Growing up in Missouri, America, Baker became a dancer in her adolescence, joining touring dance groups and performing in musical comedies such as Shuffle Along. In 1925, she moved to Paris to pursue her career, and she went on to become one of the most popular music-hall entertainers. She had gigs at the most prestigious venues across town, including the Folies-Bergère, where she impressed the crowds with her flamboyant personality and glamorous style, including extravagant jewels and feathers.

During World War II, Baker worked with the Red Cross, and she was rewarded with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honour. In her later life, she continued to perform and was also recognised for her charity and activism, often travelling back to the United States to participate in civil rights demonstrations.

Josephine Baker by Murray Korman, 1936 © reserved; National Portrait Gallery, London

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Singer, performer, activist, Josephine Baker has become the first black woman remembered at the Pantheon.

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Aujourd’hui est un jour historique ! Joséphine Baker, icône noire franco-américaine, devient la première femme de couleur à reposer au Panthéon. Tout au long de sa vie, Joséphine Baker a bouleversé et fait tomber les barrières grâce à son style, son art et ses convictions. Vé……
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"She had an ideal of universal brotherhood"
Baker is the first black woman to be remembered in the Panthéon, the resting place of France’s national heroes. Here's Josephine Baker's amazing story.



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Black French-American entertainer and WWII resistance fighter Josephine Baker will be honored with a tomb in France’s Pantheon Mausoleum. It took France over half a century after her death in 1975 to bestow one of its highest honors to her. The Pantheon Mausoleum is a Parisian memorial and induction into the complex is reserved for national figures in France.



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The small but dense exhibition is a collaboration between the Neue Nationalgalerie’s director, Klaus Biesenbach, and three other curators.Credit...Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times

Baker peforming on Broadway in the “Ziegfeld Follies” in the 1930s.Credit...Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times; The New York Public Library

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“Slipcover” by Simone Leigh is one of many pieces of art in the show that Baker inspired.Credit...Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times; Simone Leigh, Matthew Marks Gallery

Artists and scholars remain influenced by Baker and what Francis, the co-curator, describes in a video essay that appears in the show as the performer’s “prismatic” qualities: “Neither a single image nor a static representation, Baker is rather a dazzling many-ness, a structure of spectacles, formed from multiple media.”