Belle Epoque Postcards ~ Artists ~ Loïe Fuller

Loïe Fuller
(Marie Louise Fuller)

* January 22th 1862, Fullersburg (Illinois, USA)
† January 2nd 1928, Paris (France)

Loïe Fuller was an American dancer who got famous in Europe, mainly Paris, especially with her amazing and unique serpentine dance. Please notice the link to the YouTube video right below!
A further short biography is still in work.

Original vintage postcards of Loïe Fuller are difficult to find. We feel very lucky to have two in our collection.

Bibliography:

• Lista, Giovanni
  Loïe Fuller, danseuse de la Belle Epoque
  Somogy Édtitions d'art, 1994 (french language)

• Birnie Danzker, Jo-Anne
  Loïe Fuller, getanzter Jugenstil
  Ausstellung Villa Stuck, München 1995 (german language)

• Veroli, Patrizia
  Loïe Fuller
  L'Epos, 2009 (italian language)
  

• Morron, André
  Les Ballets Fantastiques de Loïe Fuller
  1934 (french language)

• Haile Harris, Margaret
  Loïe Fuller, magigian of light
  The Museum, 1979

• Cooper Albright, Ann
  Traces of Light:
  Absence and Presence in the Work of Loïe Fuller
  Wesleyan University Press, Middletown 2007

• Brandstetter, Gabriele; Ochaim, Brygida
  Loïe Fuller. Tanz. Lichtspiel. Art Nouveau
  Rombach-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1989
  (german language)

• Garelick, Rhonda K.
  Electric Salome: Loïe Fuller's Performance of Modernism
  Princeton University Press, 2009

Web-Sites:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loie_Fuller

• http://www.theomag.de/02/pb1.htm

YouTube-Video:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TchsQdBIRGQ