Violetta, the Armless and Legless Venus
In 1929, the French surrealist journal Variétés published photos of Violetta as though she were a living, breathing work of surrealistic art — which, if you think about it, she was. Born Aloisia Wagner in 1907 in Bremen-Hemeligen, Germany, the woman who came to be known as Violetta the Trunk Woman came into the world without [...]