Rather than depicting Berber nude, he painted her in a slinky red dress, one hand resting on her hip.

Presumably destroyed during the Nazi era, it receives far less attention now. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Otto Dix, The Dancer Anita Berber, c.1925, Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany. Oil and tempera on plywood Details 120 x 65 cm (47 1/4 x 25 5/8 in.) Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Enlarge; License; Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber. 1891, Untermhaus, near Gera d. 1969, Singen) Date. This was the painting that made Otto Dix famous. Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhaɪnʁiç ˈʔɔto ˈdɪks]; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Share. In 1931, Alfred H. Barr referred to it as "perhaps the most famous picture painted in post-war Europe. ‘The Dancer Anita Berber’ was created in 1925 by Otto Dix in Verism style.

The artist began work on The Trench in 1920 while he was still in Dresden. Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber. Before Berber was the subject of Dix’s painting, she sat for a series of racy lithographs by the the German artist Charlotte Berend-Corinth. Berber also … Dix, who, by the 1930s, was well established as an artist and as a professor at the K unstakademie in Dresden, was a natural target.
Currently in New York city at the Neue Galerie, on loan from the Landesbank Baden-Würtemberg in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. 1925 Medium. Artist.

Oil and tempera on plywood, 120 x 65 cm. Otto Dix was one such artist deemed by the Nazis to be degenerate and who suffered as a consequence of being branded in this way. While in Düsseldorf in 1925, Otto Dix painted her portrait 'The Dancer Anita Berber', unofficially known as 'The Scarlet Whore of Babylon'. Share. Metropolis (German: Großstadt) is a tryptych painting by the German artist Otto Dix, executed between 1927 and 1928.The painting depicts three nighttime city scenes from the Weimar Republic.The painting belongs to the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart since it was bought to the artists estate in 1972. Otto Dix and His Dancer In 1925, Otto Dix , a German artist whose work was often heavily critical of the war, painted an intriguing portrait of Berber. Otto Dix (b. Otto Dix, The Dancer Anita Berber (1925).