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Berlin: Fritz Gurlitt, 1919.
Berend-Corinth began exhibiting her paintings at the Berliner Secession in 1906.
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An undated portfolio of nine characters played by Massary’s husband Max Pallenberg (1877-1934) was probably completed in the early 1920s.
Anita Berber by Charlotte Berend-Corinth
Valeska Gert by Charlotte Berend-Corinth
Charlotte Berend studied fine arts at the Royal School of Art in Berlin and the Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum, taught by Eva Stort and Max Schäfer.
All of the lithographs are signed by the artist.
Berendt-Corinth died in 1967.
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Anita Berber: Femme Fatale of the Weimar Republic
Born on 10 June 1899 in Dresden Germany, Anita Berber shocked and entertained the cabaret and bourgeois crowds of the Weimar Republic right up to her untimely death at the age of 29.
They both struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, most notably cocaine, and their performances and poetry often included references to drugs. Beginning in 1919, Charlotte drew character studies of various Berlin actors and actresses, including Valeska Gert (1892-1978); Anita Berber (1899-1928); and Fritzi Massary (1882-1969). She strikes a fierce, vampy pose, and her face is thickly coated in make-up as if she’s wearing a mask.
Dix and his wife knew Berber both professionally and personally (they had seen several of her live performances).
With Dix’s portrait, he reminds the viewer that everything, even Berber’s over-the-top sexuality and persona, is an act and a performance.
Before Berber was the subject of Dix’s painting, she sat for a series of racy lithographs by the German artist Charlotte Berend-Corinth. She became his model for a number of paintings, including Portrait of Charlotte Berend in a White Dress.
She painted book illustrations for Max Pallenberg, Fritzi Massary, and Valeska Gert and painted portraits of Michael Bohnen, Werner Krauss, Paul Bildt and Paul Graetz. In the 1920s she supported young artists from the theatres in Berlin. If Berber were alive today, rather than being labeled the “princess of debauchery,” she might be seen as a fiercely confident woman, a la Lady Gaga.
Portraits of the Dancer Anita Berber – Lithographs by Charlotte Berend – Berlin, 1919
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Anita Berber, Acht Originallithographieen [Anita Berber, eight original lithographs], by Charlotte Berend.
On 13 October the same year their son Thomas Corinth was born, and their daughter Wilhelmine Corinth was born on 13 June 1909. As a result, they were both banned from performing in European venues for several years. It was here, in her lakeside home at Urfeld, where she painted landscapes, portraits and still lifes and more and more retired from the active arts scene.
More recently she’s been seen in a new light, thanks to LGBTQ+ and feminist studies. They divorced after she fell in love with a lesbian bar owner, Susi Wanowski, who became her manager as well as her lover.
Besides dancing in cabarets, Berber also made more than a dozen appearances in films, including a role in the 1919 silent film Different From the Others.