Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber
Year: 1925
Description: Raised by a grandmother in Dresden, she fled to Berlin at age 16 where she supported herself in caberets. By the end of the war, she was dancing nude and performing in films. She was notorious and always in the company of lovers of both sexes. She could often be seen in hotel lobbies naked apart from an sable wrap, a pet monkey and a silver brooch packed with cocaine. She died of tuberculosis in 1928.
Provenance: Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
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Sabrina Sohn