Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber

The Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber (German: Porträt der Tänzerin Anita Berber) is a painting executed by German painter Otto Dix in 1925.

It represents the dancer Anita Berber, a celebrity of Weimar Republic, known for her scandalous performances and licentious lifestyle, and its at the collection of the Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg in loan to the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany.

[1] Dix knew Anita Berber personally, having attended several of her live performances.

Her hair is red too, while she wears a very thick white makeup, which gives her face a mask-like appearance.

[3] The painting was part of the two stamps edition by Deutsche Post to commemorate the centennial of the birth of Otto Dix in 1991.