Dodo (painter)

Dodo, born as Dörte Clara Wolff (10 February 1907 – 22 December 1998), was a German painter and illustrator of the New Objectivity.

Dörte Wolff was brought up in a comfortable upper middle-class Jewish environment in Berlin.[2] From 1923 to 1926, she studied art and fashion illustration at the prestigious Schule Reimann for artists and designers. She initially worked mainly as a fashion illustrator and also designed costumes for Marlene Dietrich and Diseuse Margo Lion in Mischa Spoliansky's Revue Es liegt in der Luft (text by Marcellus Schiffer), which premiered in 1928. From early on, she used to sign her works as DODO or DoDo. Dodo reached the peak of her artistic career between 1927 and 1930 with caustic genre scenes of Weimar Republic's glamorous high society. More than 60 of her intensely colourful gouaches, narrating the sophisticated life of the modern urbanite and the increasing estrangement of the sexes, were published in the German satirical magazine ULK.

In 1929, Dodo married the Jewish lawyer and notary Dr. Hans Bürgner (1882–1974); the couple had two children, Anja and Thomas Ulrich. 1933 she met Carl Gustav Jung-disciple Dr. Gerhard Adler (1904–1988) with whom she fell in love. She followed him to Zürich, where she was analyzed by Toni Wolff (1888–1953), Jung´s close companion, at the Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, also named Burghölzli Klinik. Dodo expressed her dreams in her works, a sequence of watercolors which she characterized as "unconscious paintings". As of 1934, Dodo could only work for Jewish publications, such as the Jüdische Rundschau, who frequently published her Bible illustrations, theatre scenes or drawings for children.

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