Francis Bacon’s Peculiar Time in 1920s’ Berlin
The more research I did on Francis Bacon, the more enthralled I became. Always on the lookout for troubled musicians whose drunken rhymes I could live by, I’d never been that passionate about any visual artist. But I have to admit – that guy was just like a rock star, at least if you consider just how emotionally haunting his works could be.
Clearly, I thought, with this kind of artistic sensibility, he must have been to Berlin.
And I was right. What’s interesting, though, and why I decided to write this article, is that Bacon’s Berlin experience was not limited to the times he might have been to our beloved Hauptstadt already as an acclaimed painter. The first time his wild imagination was undeniably stimulated by this promiscuous city took place in 1927, back in the days of the Weimar Republic.