Artist: Otto Dix

Style: Expressionism

Topic: Portraits Women Famous People

Date: 1926

Museum: Musée National d'Art Moderne (Paris, France)

A prototypical Neue Sachlichkeit portrait by German painter Otto Dix (1891-1969) depicting the journalist Sylvia von Harden, a habitue of Berlin's famed Romanisches Cafe. Dix's critical realism verges on a caricature of the Neue Frau in the Weimar Era, while his style of oil painting and attention to physical details serve to heighten the character's individuality in this fascinating image.