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© Kunsthalle München, Photo: Bernd Ratzke
Anon., Head of a Genius, 883–859 BCE
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Vorderasiatisches Museum, Photo: Olaf M. Teßmer, CC BY-SA 4.0
August Sander, Police Officer, 1925/1990
© Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Köln; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026
German, Moustache Cup, c. 1880
© Sammlung Schwarzkopf im Deutschen Hygiene-Museum, Photo: Michael Kretzschmar
Unknown, Moustache Cup, late 19th c.
© Sammlung Schwarzkopf im Deutschen Hygiene-Museum, Photo: Michael Kretzschmar
Copy after Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, King of France
Photo: © bpk / Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Jean-Antoine Houdon, François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, 1778
Photo: © bpk / GrandPalaisRmn / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
Jean-Antoine Houdon, François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, 1782
Photo: © bpk / GrandPalaisRmn / Franck Raux
Paulus Vischer, Wild Man, c. 1521/22
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / Antje Voigt; CC BY-SA 4.0
Arnold Böcklin, Sleeping Nymph spied on by two Fauns, 1884
Photo: © Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the Rembrandt Association, with the additional support from the Cultuurfonds)
Anon., Barbara van Beck, c. 1650
Photo: Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/njrxjhcu
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Monstrorum Historia, 1642
Photo: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Res/2 H.nat. 1,11, S. 16-18.
Anon. (Spain), Barber-surgeon operating on a boil on a man's forehead, c. 1640
Photo: M0007656: Barber-surgeons operating on a boil on a man's forehead. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/e36fg678
August Sander, Hairdresser, 1930
© Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Köln; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026
Bo Hylén, Barber Shop, 2000
Photo: © BO HYLÉN
Doug Segars, The Power and Politics of Black Barber Shops, 2017
Photo: © Doug Segars
Gerhard Goder, Conchita Wurst on the Crescent Moon, 2014
Photo: © Gerhard Goder, Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Ute Franz-Scarciglia
Anon., Sankt Kümmernis/Wilgefortis (Saint Uncumber/Wilgefortis), c. 1780
© Photo: Creative Common CC-BY-SA-3.0
Claude Cahun, Self-Portrait, 1920
Photo: Courtesy of Jersey Heritage Collections
Annette Frick, from the six-part Series “Gunter”, 1995
Photo: © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026, © Annette Frick -Gunter Trube -ex-Puttrich-Reignard 1996
Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Woman in Profile (Simonetta Vespucci), 1475–1480
Photo: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Christoph Schmidt; Public Domain Mark 1.0
Salvador Viniegra y Lasso de la Vega, The first kiss, 1891
Photo: © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid
Pierre et Gilles, Medusa (Zuleika Ponsen), 1990
Photo: © Pierre et Gilles. Courtesy Noirmontartproduction
Melchior Feselen, Assumption of Mary Magdalene, 1523
Photo: Museen der Stadt Regensburg, Michael Preischl
Domenico Veneziano, Head of a tonsured, bearded Saint, 1440–1444
Photo: © The National Gallery, London. All rights reserved
Anon., Head of a Buddha Figure, 7th – 9th c. AD
Photo: Museum Fünf Kontinente, München, Nicolai Kästner
Anon., Scale of Hair Colours after Fischer-Saller, c. 1928
Photo: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena | Phyletisches Museum
Wes Placek, Hair of murdered women, 1975
Photo: © Wes Placek/Copyright Agency, 2023. Image courtesy National Gallery of Victoria
Wes Placek, Victim’s brushes, 1975
Photo: © Wes Placek/Copyright Agency, 2023. Image courtesy National Gallery of Victoria
Smith, Shaving Heads at Montelimar, 29th August, 1944
Photo: Courtesy National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-193785
Anon., Paris. Frenchwomen with Shaven Heads, 1944
Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1975-041-10
Laetitia Ky, Fighter, 2023
Photo: Courtesy LIS10 Gallery © Laetitia Ky
Laetitia Ky, The strength of a woman, 2022
Photo: Courtesy LIS10 Gallery © Laetitia Ky
Laetitia Ky, Afric’hair, 2022
Photo: Courtesy LIS10 Gallery © Laetitia Ky
Anon., Bracelet, c. 1840
Photo: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Anon., Clock Key
Photo: Bayrisches Nationalmuseum, München
Germany, Drop-shaped Earrings, c. 1850
© Deutsches Hygienemuseum Dresden, Photo: Michael Kretzschmar
Siegmund Höftmeier, Hairwork, 1860
Photo: Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Stadtkultur
Anon., Hairwork, 1800–1850
Photo: Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Stadtkultur
Anon., Hairwork, 1850–1900
Photo: Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Stadtkultur
Anon. (Germany), Hairwork, c. 1860
Photo: Sammlung Schwarzkopf im Deutschen Hygiene-Museum
Hannah Wilke, Intra-Venus, 1992–1993
Photo: © Donald and Helen Goddard, Courtesy of Schwartzman&
Alfons Mucha, Champagne Ruinart Père et fils. Reims, 1896
Photo: © Paris, Les Arts Décoratifs / Jean Tholance
Ludwig Hohlwein, Schaumpon
Photo: Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Reklamekunst
Ludwig Hohlwein, Schaumpon
Photo: Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Reklamekunst
Fidus (Hugo Höppener), „Die ersten Menschen“, 1908
Photo: Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Reklamekunst
Louis Wöhner, „Ausgekämmtes Frauenhaar, ein wichtiger Kriegsrohstoff!“, 1914-1918
Photo: © IWM (Art. IWM PST 0516)
Key Visual:
Design based on excerpts from Herlinde Koelbl, Projekt Haare, Punk, 2007, © Herlinde Koelbl / Jacques-Louis David, Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Comtesse de Sorcy, 1790, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen – Neue Pinakothek München, on permanent loan from HypoVereinsbank, Photo: Nicole Wilhelms; and based on an idea by Naro Pinosa
