In this case, Dix presents a scene that takes place in a nightclub, with two Ionic columns, where he appears himself at the center foreground, and where are visible several people, presumably customers and those who worked there, including, at the right, an African-American drummer for a jazz band.
[1][3] Dix presents himself dressed as a businessman, in a dapper suit of the latest fashion, while looking directly at the viewer, with an expressionless face, while clutching a modern-style telephone.
The artist is most likely presenting himself in the role of a businessman engaged in some kind of business, in the difficult times of inflation of the first years of the Weimar era.
At the lower left, a wax bust of a women, with an ancient hairstyle, similar to those used as advertisements for hairdressers before the World War I, looks smiling to the viewer.
[1][4] The title of the painting is meant to be ironic, in contrast with the reality it depicts, and it might have been inspired by a Max Klinger cycle of engravings, called Vom Tode II (1898), which included the print An die Schöneit, in English, To Beauty.