New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- There is an intimate portrait of a lesbian couple, a painting of young naked men enjoying themselves by the water and one of a flamboyantly dressed, androgynously looking person at a fairground.

Queer art has often been neglected and marginalized in the past but a new exhibition in Germany called "Queer Modernism. 1900 to 1950" is trying to overcome old prejudices and show the significant contributions of queer artists to modernism.

The show, which opens to the public on Friday in the western city of Dusseldorf, shines a spotlight on art by the LGBTQ+ community during the first half of the 20th century - a time marked both by more sexual freedom in cosmopolitan centers like Paris or Berlin, but also by persecution...