Okay, y’all, there’s a lot to deal with here. First off, it says Motilde to me. That’s what my eyes see. But her name was Clotilde von Derp, an expressionist dancer who married another dancer but refused to take his name of Sakharoff. I would have taken that over Derp any day, but this was before derp was a thing.
If you ask anyone under 40 what a derp is, they’ll most likely think of this, which is a word for foolishness or stupidity.
But von Derp it was. And really, that’s just her pretend stage name. Her legit name was Clotilde Margarete Anna Edle von der Planitz. That’s a lot to embroider. Photographer Rudolph Duhrkoop took the pic in 1913.
Couldn’t you just fall into the heart patterns of her dress?
Here she is all pretzel with her man.
I Don't Get It 
Expressionist dancing; isn’t that a type of dance that doesn’t follow any music? Just movement and sound,
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I bet I wouldn’t enjoy it.
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It is just as well she was a very striking and talented woman because Derp is a daft name whether it meant the same thing as it does now or not and whether it was a stage name or not.
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She should have married Baron Von Dork just so we could enjoy watching the Derp-Dork children grow up, go to school and get bullied unmercifully.
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Oh, that that had happened!
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;>)
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