Portrait of Anita Berber who was a known dancer.
'The Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber/Porträt der Tänzerin Anita Berber' was created by Otto Dix in 1925. Anita Berber was known for "scandalous performances and her lifestyle."
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Der Autor & Schauspieler Steffen Schroeder kommt mit seinem neuen 20er Jahre Roman „Der ewige Tanz“ (Rowohlt) über die Tänzerin Anita Berber ins Logbuch.
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In 1925, German artist Otto Dix painted this striking portrait of Anita Berber, a celebrity of the Weimar Republic, known for her scandalously androgynous performances and licentious lifestyle. She was legendary for her excessive alcohol and drug consumption as well as for her ecstatic nude dance performances. Although Berber posed naked for this portrait, Dix depicted her wearing a slinky flitted dark red dress spotlighted from a red mist background like the main character she was on and off the stage. Striking a vamp-like pose, with her right hand on her hip, her posture is graceful and confrontational yet detached as she turns her head to look away from us. The image ends at her knees. A high turtleneck plays up her thin neck. Her hair is a rich red, and she wears very thick white makeup and dark smoky eye makeup, which gives her face a mask-like appearance. Dix reminds us that everything, even Berber’s over-the-top sexuality and persona, is an act and a performance. In 1922, Berber married the German poet and actor Sebastian Droste and the two of them created a book of poetry and photography titled "Dances of Vice, Horror and Ecstasy," which they also performed in various nightclubs. They both struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, most notably cocaine, and their performances and poetry often included references to drugs. In the stage performance titled Absinthe, Berber danced while consuming the drink by the same name. An excerpt from her poem Cocaine reveals the painful power of the drug in their lives: Cocaine Outcry Animals Blood Alcohol Pains Many pains And the eyes. Excerpt from: Anita Berber, Cocaine. Between 1918 and 1925, she appeared in 25 films. Her marrieage with Droste ended in 1923, and she married her 3rd husband, American dancer Henri Chatin-Hofmann in 1925. In 1928, at the age of 29, she suddenly gave up alcohol, but sadly passed away later the same year and was buried in a pauper's grave in St. Thomas Cemetery in Neukölln, Berlin.
"Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber" by Otto Dix (German) - - Oil and tempera on plywood / 1925 - Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Germany) #WomenInArt #artwork #art #PortraitofaWoman #GermanArt #AnitaBerber #OttoDix #Dix #ArtText #GermanArtist #womensart #icon #1920s #WeimarRepublic #KunstmuseumStuttgart
Anita Berber (1899-1929) was a nude dancer, actress, provocateur and promiscuous bisexual woman. Her life was like a candle burning from both ends, epitomising the wild excesses and turbulent creativity of Berlin in the 1920s. Weakened by her alcohol and drug abuse, she died from tbc.
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Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg wankt alles Feste, die Welt ist ungeahnt frei und gefährlich zugleich. Steffen Schroeder erzählt Anita Berbers aufregendes Leben, das die Epoche verkörpert.
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Portrait of the hedonistic and inimitable Anita Berber by Otto Dix. She would die only three years after this portrait was completed at the age of 27, an unfortunate side-effect of such an indulgent existence. #berlin #ottodix #anitaberber #weimar
