A the same time as F Scott Fitzgerald unleashed The Great Gatsby upon the American reader, a quiet revolution was occurring on the Eastern horizon. “It was the perfect synthesis of art, architecture, design and ideas. I would call them pioneers,” shares Raffael Dedo Gadebusch, head and senior curator of the Museum fur Asiatische Kunst, Berlin. Gadebusch’s enthusiasm echoes across the gallery space we are in at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum that hosts the Eckart Muthesius and Manik Bagh — Pioneering Modernism in India. The exhibition, hosted in collaboration with Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin (Asian Art Museum) and the German Consulate General Mumbai offers a glimpse of this revolution.

Senior curator Raffael Dedo Gadebusch helms the walkthrough