“If you look closely at the lanky newspaper readers, who recall Feininger’s caricatures, you can read the headlines ‘Moltke-Harden.’ These headlines reference the greatest scandal in imperial Germany. The journalist Maximilian Harden had described members of the cabinet and friends of Kaiser Wilhelm II, including Kuno Graf von Moltke, as a ‘homoerotic roundtable of political sissies.’ This initiated a wave of charges and libel suits against Harden, but it also prompted discussions about homosexuality among the German public.”
- Lisa Zeitz, chief editor of Weltkunst, December 2021