- Asked whether a stage costume would interfere with her, Olga Desmond answered: "To be completely graceful in a costume or even in a tricot is unthinkable. And I decided to throw off this needless yoke." Objecting to the claims that she excites "base instincts" of the public, the dancer said: "I purposely set a high admission charge for my shows so that the street would not get in, for it has little understanding of pure art, but so that people with broader demands for it would come, people who will look on me as a servitor of art.".
- In 1907 she joined a group of artists and appeared as Venus during the group's nine-month tour at the London Pavilion where they put on "plastic representations.
- She began her career as a model for different artists before she became a celebrated artist with her vividly performances which oriented to the antique ideals and were normally performed nude.
- During the difficult time of Nationak Socialism she attempted suicide. Later she had to work as a cleaner to scratch a living.
- From 1915 she was able to gain a foothold in the film business.
- After World War II, Desmond lived in the eastern part of Berlin. When the wall was built, she was unable to leave.
- She continued her stage career and she became famous as a dancer. In consequence of her success she also gave dancing lessons till the end of the 20s. But finally there were new forms of dancing and the dancing of Olga Desmond was no longer in demand.
- She became the first nude dancer of Berlin. This indignation made Olga Desmond widely famous and she gave guest performances in Germany, Austria, Russia, USA and Great Britain. Her presentations were sold out soon and her performances with a veil or only a small metal belt fascinated the audience.
- After the First World War she married her second husband, Georg Piek, a Jewish businessman with a studio for stage equipment, decorations, and special fabrics. After 1933 Piek left Germany. Olga Desmond continued to manage the business.
- She presented dance evenings and other things in Warsaw, Breslau (now Wroclaw), and Kattowitz (now Katowice). Thereafter, she made fewer public appearances and from 1922 devoted herself entirely to teaching.
- When Olga Desmond died in mental derangement in 1964 the once celebrated artist was completely forgotten and impoverished.
- She already had made her first nude performance at the age of 16 for the sculptor Reinhold Begas.
- Her private life became very complicated from 1933 because of the politic of the National Socialism. Her second husband was a Jew and had to flee and Olga Desmond took over his requisite trading. She still was able to act on the stage till to the beginning of World War II.
- One of this nude performances was filmed in 1909, the movie was called "Hallo! Die grosse Revue: Der Schönheitsabend" (09).
- Olga Desmond herself persistently defended her right to appear naked. "Call it daring or bold, or however you want to describe my appearance on the stage, but this requires art, and it (art) is my only deity, before whom I bow and for which I am prepared to make all possible sacrifices," she told the Russian press. "I decided to break the centuries-old heavy chains, created by people themselves. When I go out on stage completely naked, I am not ashamed, I am not embarrassed, because I come out before the public just as I am, loving all that is beautiful and graceful. There was never a case when my appearance before the public evoked any cynical observations or dirty ideas.".
- In Berlin she co-founded the Association for Ideal Culture and gave shows called "living pictures" in which she posed after the manner of ancient classical works of art. These so-called "Evenings of Beauty" (Schönheitsabende) were prohibited on more than one occasion starting from 1908, because the actors usually posed nude or wearing only bodypaint.
- The "heroine of living pictures," Olga Desmond became one of the first to promote nudity on the stage in St. Petersburg, Russia, when in the summer of 1908 the German dancer arrived there with her repertoire of performance. Olga Desmond's Evenings of Beauty quickly became the subject of a great debate in the Russian media. At least one of the representatives of official "justice" wanted to haul Desmond into court for "seduction.".
- Among her best-known students was Hertha Feist, who later became a member of the dance group of Rudolf von Laban.
- To make a living, she also sold vintage postcards and other memorabilia from her time as a renowned dancer.
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